How to pronounce“cytokine”in English
like the corticosteroid dexamethasone but it's a fairly blunt instrument that affects the immune response as a whole several much more specific
cytokine inhibitors that have been approved for other conditions like arthritis are currently in testing to see whether
they are also effective in coronavirus induced cytokine storms there's also a machine that actively filters cytokines out of a patient's
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Definitions of “cytokine”
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 been defined as cytokines.”