chemokine

American  

[kee-moh-kahyn] / ˈki moʊˌkaɪn /

noun

plural

chemokines

1. Immunology. a type of cytokine, secreted by certain cells, that chemically attracts white blood cells to sites of inflammation or infection.

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chemokine Scientific  

/ kē′mō-kīn′ /

1. See cytokine

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Other Word Forms

• chemokine-like adjective
• chemokinetic adjective

Example Sentences

In order to understand how these signalling proteins coordinate immune cells, researchers from Bonn took a closer look at the chemokine Ccl3.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

"This means that a chemokine can change its structure, to a large extent, and take on a new function," Flajnik said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Selective chemokine receptor usage by central nervous system myeloid cells in CCR2-red fluorescent protein knock-in mice.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2018

Nevertheless, autistic children did have high levels of a chemokine called MCP-1.

From Newsweek

Working independently, research teams from the U.S. and Belgium zeroed in on a single protein, called a chemokine, that lodges on the surface of all T cells.

From Time Magazine Archive