macrophage migration inhibiting factor

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Etymology: Gk, makros, large; phagein, to eat; L, migrare, to wander, inhibere, to restrain, facere, to make

a lymphokine produced by leukocytes that immobilizes macrophages after contact with an antigen. Also called leukocyte migration inhibition factor, macrophage inhibition factor (MIF).

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