Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various soluble substances, released by sensitized lymphocytes on contact with specific antigens, that act by stimulating activity of monocytes and macrophages.

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  • noun biochemistry Any of a group of cytokines produced by lymphocytes

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  • noun a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[lympho– + Greek kīnein, to move; see kinin.]

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Examples

  • Inflammatory bowel disease mucosal biopsies have specialized lymphokine mRNA profiles.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Inflammatory bowel disease mucosal biopsies have specialized lymphokine mRNA profiles.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Drumming improves immunity: Group drumming resulted in increased dehydroepiandrosterone-to-cortisol ratios, increased natural killer cell activity, and increased lymphokine-activated killer cell activity without alteration in plasma interleukin 2 or interferon-gamma, or in the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory II.

    Srinivasan Pillay: 7 Ways Music Breaks Can Improve Your Health 2010

  • For example, chrysotile fibres have been shown to depress the in vitro proliferation of phytohemagglutinin-stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes, suppress natural killer cell lysis and significantly reduce lymphokine-activated killer cell viability and recovery.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2004

  • At the same time it increases the cytotoxic action of macrophages in destroying tumor cells by stimulating the production of lymphokine interleukin.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • "It certainly has stimulated the immune systems," Clyde said as he continued to study the lymphokine chart.

    Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000

  • They may be named by their source: lymphokine (cytokines made by lymphocytes) monokine (cytokines made by monocytes) chemokine (cytokines with chemotactic activities) interleukin (cytokines made by one leukocyte and acting on other leukocytes).

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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