[Cytokine redundancy--unity in diversity].

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 explained by binding of related cytokines to a common subunit of the receptor that have unique signalling capacity. Specificity...

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