Chemokine

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  • noun. Any of various cytokines produced in acute and chronic inflammation that mobilize and activate white blood cells.
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  • noun. Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.
  • Word Usage
    "And another thing that's really interesting is that there's this whole -- the way tumors move throughout the body it's a very complex system -- and there's something called the chemokine network."
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    eotaxin