interleucine
interleucine is the alternative form of interleukin.
Meaning of interleukin
Noun
interleukin (plural interleukins)
- Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
- Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause...2010 October 4, Jennifer Ackerman, “How Not to Fight Colds”, in The New York Times
Forms of interleucine
| plural | interleucines |
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Questions about interleucine
- What is interleucine the alternative form of?
- Interleucine is the alternative form of interleukin.
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