Mesh term Chemokines
Browse to parent terms:Chemotactic Factors
Cytokines
Inflammation Mediators
Description
Class of pro-inflammatory cytokines that have the ability to attract and activate leukocytes. They can be divided into at least three structural branches: C; (CHEMOKINES, C); CC; (CHEMOKINES, CC); and CXC; (CHEMOKINES, CXC); according to variations in a shared cysteine motif.Browse to child terms:
Chemokines, C
Chemokines, CC
Chemokines, CX3C
Chemokines, CXC
Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins
beta-Thromboglobulin
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