INTERLEUKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interleukin mean? 

• INTERLEUKIN (noun)
  The noun INTERLEUKIN has 1 sense:

1. any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system

  Familiarity information: INTERLEUKIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLEUKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("interleukin" is a kind of...):

lymphokine (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))

 Context examples 

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) harvested directly from infiltrate of a patient's melanoma and cultured with interleukin-2 to expand the TIL cell population.

(Melanoma Tumor-Reactive Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

A murine monoclonal antibody directed against of the beta subunit of interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R), expressed on resting T-lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, and some leukemic cell types.

(Monoclonal Antibody Mik-Beta-1, NCI Thesaurus)

A human IgG1 monoclonal antibody directed against interleukin-1 alpha (IL1a) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anti-IL-1 alpha Monoclonal Antibody MABp1, NCI Thesaurus)

Any monoclonal antibody directed against the alpha subunit of the human interleukin 2 receptor.

(Anti-CD25 Monoclonal Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of interleukin receptor antagonist.

(Anakinra, NCI Dictionary)

Stimulation of GHSR may also reduce the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and interleukin-6, which may play a direct role in cancer-related loss of appetite.

(Anamorelin, NCI Thesaurus)

Type 2 Helper Cells are a subset of helper-inducer T-lymphocytes which synthesize and secrete the interleukins IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, and IL-10.

(Murine Th2 Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Neumega is a form of interleukin-11 (a cytokine normally made by support cells in the bone marrow) that is made in the laboratory.

(Neumega, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Neumega, recombinant human interleukin-11, and rhIL-11.

(Oprelvekin, NCI Dictionary)

A recombinant therapeutic agent which is chemically identical to or similar to the endogenous cytokine interleukin 11 (IL-11).

(Oprelvekin, NCI Thesaurus)