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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Chemical mediator produced by activated T lymphocytes and which regulates the proliferation of T cells, as well as playing a role in the regulation of NK cell activity. (references) |
| Soluble substances elaborated by antigen- or mitogen-stimulated T-lymphocytes which induce DNA synthesis in naive lymphocytes. (references) | |
Medicine | Interleukin-2:chemical mediator produced by activated T lymphocytes and which regulates the proliferation of T cells, as well as playing a role in the regulation of NK cell activity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: INTERLEUKIN-2 |
| Specialty definitions using "INTERLEUKIN-2": aldesleukin ♦ Biomed 101 ♦ hu14.18-interleukin-2 fusion protein ♦ Interleukin-1, Interleukin-7 ♦ leuvectin, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating ♦ NG-monomethyl-L-arginine ♦ Th1 Cells. (references) |
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 | The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Mice were injected with mouse sarcoma cells amd treated 3 days later when many micro-metastatic tumor foci were evident in the lungs. Lungs on the left were treated with saline. The lungs on the right were treated with lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Greater than 250 sarcoma metastases are seen in the lungs of saline treated mice. This number is significantly reduced to less than 12 in mice receiving LAK cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Normal mouse lung is 1 inch long. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In numerous studies, researchers have supplied patients with extra amounts of immune stimulants, such as interleukin-2, in the hope that they will improve the body's ability to fight CNS cancer. (references) | |
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| "INTERLEUKIN-2" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "INTERLEUKIN-2" is used about 26 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 (singular) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "INTERLEUKIN-2": hu14.18-interleukin-2 fusion protein. | |
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| Language | Translations for "INTERLEUKIN-2"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | interleukine-2, IL-2, facteur de croissance des lymphocytes T. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | interleukin-2ay interleuquina-2 (IL-2, T-cell growth factor, TCGF, thymocyte stimulating factor). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "2-e-e-i-i-k-l-n-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: interleukin. | |
-3 letters: interline, interlink. | |
-4 letters: runelike, tinklier, tunneler. | |
-5 letters: interne, inutile, kernite, kinetin, lenient, lintier, netlike, neurine, niterie, nitrile, nunlike, nutlike, retinue, reunite, tinkler, tinlike, tinnier, trunnel, urnlike, uterine. | |
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