Examining the immunomodulatory impact of pre-existing proinflammatory conditions, such as stress, on subsequent infection, rats subjected to chronic psychosocial stress followed by systemic exposure of polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidilic acid (polyl:C) to mimic infection, experienced prolonged and increased pain sensitivity, or allodynia, and depressive-like behavior, as compared to control animals, as well as enhanced microglia activation (Chijiwa et al., 2015)
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5.4.3 Anti-inflammatory activity The anti-inflammatory properties of okra flower extracts are mainly attributed to the presence of flavonoids and polysaccharides [68]
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