Cytokines affect nearly every biological process; these include embryonic development,
disease pathogenesis, non‐specific response to infection, specific response to antigen …

Cytokines have crucial functions in the development, differentiation and regulation of
immune cells. As a result, dysregulation of cytokine production or action is thought to have a …

This review provides an historical account of the discovery and development of cytokines.
Cytokines are soluble extracellular proteins or glycoproteins that are crucial intercellular …

Cytokines are a group of hormone-like polypeptide mediators that play a variety of
regulatory roles in both host defense and normal and abnormal homeostatic mechanisms …

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Cytokines participate in the induction and effector phases of all immune and inflammatory
responses. They are therefore obvious tools and targets for strategies designed to promote …

Cytokines play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. The precise
triggers for the breakdown of self-tolerance and the subsequent events leading to the …

Cytokines are important protein mediators of immunity, inflammation, cell proliferation,
differentiation, fibrosis, etc.(Oppenheim and Saklatvala, 1993). As these are the major …

The fourth edition of The Cytokine Handbook provides an encyclopedic coverage of the
molecules that induce and regulate immune responses. Now expanded to two volumes, co …

The study of cytokines started about 40 years ago with Isaacs and Lindemann's discovery
that interferon is an antiviral agent produced by the cells in response to viral attack (1). Over …