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

Usage examples of cytokine.

And the few people she saw, even Lian, each carried a cytokine aerosol at their waist, designed to stimulate an immune response against any known pathogen.

Keep everyone inside and cooperating until I can administer air packets and cytokine sprays.

No-Borders passed out the cytokine sprays, handing them to the UCE contingent, then began opening the boxes of cigarettes.

She grabbed a quick spray of cytokine before she lowered the scarf of the boy next to her and dosed him.

UCLA just made a cell line from your tissues and used it to manufacture a cytokine, the way it is manufactured naturally inside your body.

The lure of magnificent cures made possible by stem cells, cytokines, and proteonomics are drawing the brightest talent to the field.

Many cytokines, such as interleukins, had taken years to come to market.

As a matter of fact, your cells churn out cytokines more efficiently than any commercial process.

That was when he discovered just how risky venture capitalists considered cytokines to be.

Out there on the golf course, with the sun shining and a soft breeze blowing, he fed them his little speeches about the emerging wonders of biotech, and the power of the cytokines manufactured by the Burnet cell line BioGen had acquired.

Another important component of nonspecific immunity is a remarkable group of molecules called cytokines, through which cells communicate to one another and pass on vital marching orders.

It was the so-called Burnet cell line, developed from a man named Frank Burnet, whose body produced powerful cancer-fighting chemicals called cytokines.

No-Borders passed out the cytokine sprays, handing them to the UCE contingent, then began opening the boxes of cigarettes.