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n. - Any of various proteins secreted by cells of the immune system that serve to regulate the immune system.

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  • In what is known as a cytokine storm, the body quite literally destroys itself.
  • Do patients have an unusually robust immune response to the virus -- the so-called cytokine storm?
  • Swine and avian flus kill healthy people by invoking an overly aggressive immune response called a cytokine storm.
  • TSLP was originally described as a cytokine, which leads to increased B cell differentiation when added to BM B cell progenitors
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