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What is a pyrogen?

What is a pyrogen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) Any substance that produces fever, or a rise in body temperature
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The rabbit pyrogen test is well established as an official end-product test.
The most widely known pyrogen is the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide, which is produced by gram-negative bacteria.
The most important pyrogen is endotoxin, a constituent of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria that can generate endogenous fever mediators by white blood cells, particularly monocytes and macrophages.
The pyrogen test is a safety test for the detection of contaminants in medical products.
Sheaths that contact brain tissue must be pyrogen free.
He is responsible for all pyrogen and bacterial endotoxins testing issues.

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