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Saturday, 19 July 2014

Chemokines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotaxis

Chemokines belong to a special class of cytokines. Not only do their groups (C, CC, CXC, CX3C chemokines) represent structurally related molecules with a special arrangement of disulfide bridges but also their target cell specificity is diverse: CC chemokines act on monocytes (e.g., RANTES), and CXC chemokines are neutrophil granulocyte-specific (e.g., IL-8).

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