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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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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.
Epithelial cells are a rich source of cytokines, including the angiogenic chemokine CXCL5, and play an important role in vascular remodeling in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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.
The blood vessels that form to nourish a growing brain tumor apparently secrete the receptors chemokine.
The binding of gp120 to CD4 exposes a region of gp120 that interacts with the chemokine receptors.
These are messenger molecules that attract immune cells to the chemokine source.

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