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cytokines

cytokines is the plural of cytokine.

Meaning of cytokine

Noun

cytokine (plural cytokines)

  1. Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
    • Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have...1975 July, Bigazzi PE, Yoshida T, Ward PA, Cohen S., “Production of Lymphokine-Like Factors (Cytokines) by Simian Virus 40-Infected and Simian Virus 40-Transformed Cell”, in The American Journal of...

Questions about cytokines

What is cytokines the plural of?
Cytokines is the plural of cytokine.

Words near cytokines in the dictionary

  1. cytokine release syndrome
  2. cytokine release syndromes
  3. cytokine storm
  4. cytokine storms
  5. cytokinemia
  6. cytokines
  7. cytokineses
  8. cytokinesis
  9. cytokinetic
  10. cytokinetics
  11. cytokinic

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