What Are Cytokines? Cytokine proteins are chemical messengers. They perform lots of functions. Some turn other immune cells on and off. Other cytokines gather at the site of an infection or injury, sending chemical signals to attract other immune cells. Cytokines often contribute to inflammation. ...
or target of action. For example, lymphokines are cytokines produced by activated lymphocytes, monokines are cytokines produced by monocytes or macrophages, chemokines are cytokines with chemotactic activity, and interleukins were initially named for their ability to mediate interactions between leukocytes....
These data indicate that endogenous IL-10, IL-13 and SLPI are important regulators of the inflammatory response by reducing gene activation with resultant generation of peptide mediators/cytokines and chemokines.doi:10.1257/aer.91.2.418Peter A. Ward...
Downregulation of cytokines and chemokines by GB virus C after transmission via blood transfusion in HIV-positive blood recipients. J Infect Dis. 2015;211:1585–96. Article PubMed Google Scholar Sellar RS, Vargas FA, Henry JY, Verfuerth S, Charrot S, Beaton B, Chakraverty R, Quezada SA...
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and integrity.(B)Rhinovirus infection of healthy airways is facilitated by viral receptors on pseudostratified airway epithelia. Infected cells produce proinflammatory type 1 and type 2 cytokines and chemokines, as well as angiogenic soluble factors that are released into the sub-epithelial space. RV ...
Several chemotactic cytokines, or chemokines, inhibit HIV replication by blocking or down regulating chemokine receptors that serve as entry cofactors for the virus. Although the role of chemokine receptors in HIV pathogenesis has been the subject of intense interest, chemokines are comparatively less se...
However, it has been shown that certain cytokines and chemokines from the tissue microenvironment have the ability to make these resting CD4 T cells more permissive to HIV-1 infection, resulting in integrated proviruses without inducing cell proliferation or upregulation of T cell activation markers ...
Animal experiments and clinical studies have shown that estrogen closely linked to immune response: increases the phagocytic function of macrophages, and shows an immunomodulatory effect with the increase of cytokines and chemokines [47,48,49]. Estrogen deficiency leads to the increase of IL-7 to pr...
Cytokine is a general name; other names include chemokines, interferons, interleukins, lymphokines, and tumour necrosis factors, but generally not hormones or growth factors (despite some overlap in the terminology). Cytokines are produced by a broad range of cells, including immune cells like macro...