cytokine

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪ.tə(ʊ)(ˌ)kaɪn/    美 /ˈsaɪ.təˌkaɪn/|[ˈsaɪ.ɾəˌkaɪn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
    — Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have been defined as cytokines.

词形变化

cytokines plural

词源

From cyto- + -kine from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”).
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