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Cytokine Function: <i>A Study in Biologic Diversity</i>
1 May 1996
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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. They may he produced by diverse cell types and exert their function on a variety of cells. Their effects (which may be suppressive or enhancing) are on cellular proliferation, differentiation, activation, and motility. In addition, cytokines can...
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