Cellular Response To Injury In Complex Organisms: Unraveling The Repair Mechanisms
When a complex organism is injured, cells respond through a series of coordinated processes: inflammation, guided by cytokines, directs immune cells (via chemotaxis) to the injury site where they engulf and destroy foreign invaders (phagocytosis). Tissue repair mechanisms then intervene, forming scar tissue to protect the wound while regeneration aims to restore damaged tissue to…