CYTOKINES

"CYTOKINES" is a plural of: cytokine.

Specialty Definition: CYTOKINES

Domain	Definition
Health	Non-antibody proteins secreted by inflammatory leukocytes and some non-leukocytic cells, that act as intercellular mediators. They differ from classical hormones in that they are produced by a number of tissue or cell types rather than by specialized glands. They generally act locally in a paracrine or autocrine rather than endocrine manner. (references)
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Crosswords: CYTOKINES

English words defined with "CYTOKINES": atrophic arthritis ♦ rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CYTOKINES": Autocrine Motility Factor ♦ Chemokines, Cytokine regulator, cytotoxic T cells ♦ Free Radical Scavengers ♦ Genes, myb ♦ Immunosuppressive Agents ♦ Monocytes, Activated Killer ♦ Receptors, Cytokine ♦ Sirolimus ♦ Th2 Cells. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CYTOKINES

Domain	Title
Books	Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 52: Cytokines (reference) Cytokines (reference) Cytokines and Colony Stimulating Factors: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 215) (reference) Cytokines and Cytokine Receptors: Physiology and Pathological Disorders (reference) Cytokines in Transfusion Medicine: A Primer (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: CYTOKINES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some cytokines are also used by nerve cells as messenger molecules. (references)
		Certain types of cytokines have been linked to nervous system injury. (references)
		For example, some cytokines may contribute to the thickening of the skin that occurs in people with scleroderma. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CYTOKINES

"CYTOKINES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.84% of the time. "CYTOKINES" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	98.84%	85	35,870
Noun (proper)	1.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	86	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYTOKINES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cytokines	86
cancer cytokines pancreatic	6
cytokines inflammation	4
aids cytokines in role wasting	2
animation cytokines	2
cytokines staph	2
angiogenesis cytokines	2
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Derivations & Misspellings: CYTOKINES

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CYTOKINES": cytokineses, cytokinesis. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"CYTOKINES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cytokin, cytokinin, cytokinins, cytosines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CYTOKINES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-n-o-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: cytokine, cytosine.
	-2 letters: cystein, cystine, kenotic, ketonic, notices, section, society, stenoky.
	-3 letters: centos, cestoi, coneys, conies, contes, cosine, coyest, cytons, eikons, encyst, enokis, icones, incest, insect, koines, nicest, nicety, noetic, notice, oscine, sicken, socket, sticky, stinko, stinky, stocky, stoney, tocsin, tokens, tonics, yoicks.
	-4 letters: cento, cents, cesti, cines, cions, cites, coins, cokes, cones, coney.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-n-o-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: cytokineses, cytokinesis.
	+3 letters: skyrocketing.
	+4 letters: psychokinetic.
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