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The precise difficulty in saying 'chitosan is pro-inflammatory' is that 'inflammation' covers a very broad range of cellular and molecular responses that in fact can be beneficial or harmful depending on the type and degree of inflammation.
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Fong et al. (2017) studied this question.
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