 Chemokines
"Chemokines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
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D018925
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.276.374.200 D12.776.467.374.200 D23.125.300 D23.469.200 D23.529.374.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Chemokines- Chemokines
- Cytokines, Chemotactic
- Intercrines
- Chemotactic Cytokines
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chemokines" by people in this website by year, and whether "Chemokines" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Chemokines" by people in Profiles.
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Owens P, Pickup MW, Novitskiy SV, Chytil A, Gorska AE, Aakre ME, West J, Moses HL. Disruption of bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 (BMPR2) in mammary tumors promotes metastases through cell autonomous and paracrine mediators. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 21; 109(8):2814-9.
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Lafontant PJ, Burns AR, Donnachie E, Haudek SB, Smith CW, Entman ML. Oncostatin M differentially regulates CXC chemokines in mouse cardiac fibroblasts. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2006 Jul; 291(1):C18-26.
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