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What is a chemokine?

What is a chemokine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.
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Use of a chemokine receptor antagonist in combination with a cyclosporin to produce a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing the rejection of tranplanted organs, tissues or cells.
To take an example, the famous Human Genome Sciences patent 6,025,154 claims an isolated nucleotide molecule encoding the amino acids of what was designated as a chemokine receptor.
These are messenger molecules that attract immune cells to the chemokine source.
The blood vessels that form to nourish a growing brain tumor apparently secrete the receptors chemokine.
Once the cancer cells bind to CXCL12 in the new tissue site, the chemokine stimulates tissue activities that promote the survival of the cancer cells.
Use of an adsorbent which comprises a solid material having an anionic functional group for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for removing from body fluid a chemokine classified into CC subfamily.

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