[Cytokine redundancy--unity in diversity].

Article

[Cytokine redundancy--unity in diversity].

Postepy higieny i medycyny doswiadczalnej - 1 Jan 1996

Pajtasz-Piasecka E

Abstract excerpt

Various cytokines can induce similar biological effects in one type of cells (shared biological activity-redundancy). However, particular cytokine can also act on different tissues and cell types (multiple biological activity-pleiotropy). The functional redundancy and pleiotropy might be explaine...

Topics

Animals
Binding, Competitive
Cytokines
Cytoplasm
Gene Expression Regulation
Humans
Models, Biological
Phenotype
Receptors, Cytokine
Signal Transduction

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