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chemokines

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chemokines
a large family of chemotactic cytokines which stimulate leukocyte movement.


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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Clinical studies indicate that primary proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) are elevated in the gingival crevice around teeth with periodontitis but the secondary cytokines and chemokines, IL-6 and IL-8, are not.
They cover pathophysiological issues, such as neurovirological aspects of HIV infection, encephalitis, chemokines and the neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 infection, as well as cerebrospinal fluid markers of AIDS-related dementia complex, antioxidants and brain functions, cell cycle proteins and encephalitis, and neural imaging.
The researchers, however, concede that existing small molecules that bind to chemokines only bind weakly, and thus are not good candidates for use in medicines.
 
 
 
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