A mediator usually seams like some one or something that tries to bring two parties to an agreement or final outcome that is acceptabe to both. Inflammatory isn't really a quality that is valued in a mediator unless it leads o an outcome that is acceptable to both parties.
Inflammatory Mediators are responsible for the cold symptoms that accompany infection of a cold virus. When the cold virus makes contact with certain receptors in nasal tissues inflammatory mediators are also signalled to get to work. As the virus makes copies itself the virus mediators are busy making mucous around the virus receptor sites on the cells and consequently all over the rest of the cell a well.
The mucous and inflammation manifest themselves as cold symptoms but also prevent access to receptor sites and therefore ultimately bring on the end of the cold. It may seem that cold symptoms are an unfair price doled out by the mediators but considering that viruses kill every cell they infect, the trade off seams pretty reasonable to the host. This perspective may lead you to think that the mediators are unfair to the viruses by depriving them of billions and billions of potential cells to infect but the mediators have something to sweeten the deal. Along with the inflammatory and mucous producing properties the mediators trigger the cough and sneeze reflexes which deliver the viruses to a whole world of potential hosts.
Everyone Wins! Further evidence that mediation works.
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