Cytokines
Immunoassay for multiple cytokines is quick and accurate
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 16th, 2003
According to recent research published in the Journal of Immunological Methods, "Cytokines play a pivotal role in the regulation of immunologic, hematologic and wound-healing processes. They function to stimulate as well as inhibit the proliferation, differentiation, and maturation of a variety of cell types. Thus, their functions are pleiotropic as well as interdependent to the extent that any cytokine may have effects that are synergistic or antagonistic with other cytokines."
"Cytokines also display redundancy when one mimics the functions of others,"...
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