· Its reduction by vascular endothelium and infiltrating mononuclear cells was greater in inflamed mucosa.· Discussion Phagocytic cells are found in the intestinal mucosa; they are heterogeneous immunohistochemically in both normal and inflamed mucosa.· The vascular endothelium seems to produce superoxide in the inflamed mucosa, which would exacerbate tissue injury in ulcerative colitis.· Necropsy reveals a severely inflamed mucosa studded with yellowish-green purulent nodules.
a part of your body that is inflamed is red and swollen, because it is injured or infected: an inflamed eye