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Measuring Cytokine Gene Expression
Researchers on the trail of immune system activity needn't limit themselves to protein detection
Email: Josh P. Roberts - jroberts@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(3):30
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The immune system is often likened to the military. The body's army has weapons such as antibodies and complement, and soldiers such as macrophage and natural T cells. The immune system also sports an impressive communications infrastructure, in the form of intercellular protein messengers called cytokines and the cellular receptors that recognize them.
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