Chemokines ( Greek-kinos, movement ) are a family of small cytokines, or proteins secreted by cells.

Chemokines are cytokines that stimulate directional migration of inflammatory cells in vitro and in vivo.

Chemokines are characterized by the presence of four conserved cysteines, which form two disulfide bonds.

Chemokines are found in all vertebrates, some viruses and some bacteria, but none have been described for other invertebrates.

Chemokines released by infected or damaged cells form a concentration gradient.

It may be mediated by interaction through CXCR4 ( CD184 ) the receptor for CXC Chemokines ( e. g., SDF1 ) and α4β1 integrins.

Chemokines are divided into four main subfamilies: C, CC, CXC, and CX < sub > 3 </ sub > C.

Chemokines are proinflammatory and therefore contribute to the neuroinflammation process.

Castoriadis argued that the special place accorded to the intellectual should belong to each autonomous citizen.

In this view, a spinor must belong to a representation of the double cover of the rotation group, or more generally of the generalized special orthogonal group on spaces with metric signature.

To this class belong only the four great papal churches of Rome, which among other distinctions have a special " holy door " and to which a visit is always prescribed as one of the conditions for gaining the Roman Jubilee.

Some special days did not belong to any month — Yule 1 and 2 ( New Year's Eve & New Years Day ) and three Lithedays in mid-summer.

These were not true characters though, because such points belong to C0 control codes range and, therefore, these glyphs required a special way to be placed on the screen ; see code page 437 for discussion.

" But in that case a noumenon is not for our understanding a special of object, namely, an intelligible object ; the of understanding to which it might belong is itself a problem.

The majority of Russia's special police officers belong to OMON units, but these are mostly used as riot police and are not considered an elite force, unlike the SOBR ( OMSN ) rapid-response units that are consisting of experienced officers who are better trained and equipped than those of OMON.

Eligibility often requires that a student belong to some special category or be among a nation's best.

These places are something special ; they do not belong to Hungary, but are a part of Bačka and Wallachia.

Christians cannot claim such autonomy ; Christians acknowledge that they belong to God ... Christians yield their personal autonomy and accept a special obligation, as the first answer of the Heidelberg Catechism invites people to confess: ' I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ ' ( Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 1 )... A decision to take one's own life thus appears to be a denial that one belongs to God ./ A second conviction is that God does not abandon people in times of suffering ... Christians express their faith in God's love by trusting in God's care for them.

In Hindu contexts, hijras belong to a special caste.

CyberEvolved also belong to " yogangs " or youth gangs, subcultures that have distinct philosophies, styles and special skills.

Religious orders ( generally Catholic ) use the word to describe their spiritual orientation and any special characteristics of their mission or values that might be exhibited as a result of the vows that they have taken and the orientation of the order to which they belong.

Pāli shares a large proportion of these words ; in Edgerton's view, this seems to prove that most of them belong to the special vocabulary of the protocanonical Buddhist Prakrit.

" Lusha also said that Time of the Comet held a special place in her heart because " in the end we are all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

Isopods belong to the larger group Peracarida, which are united by the presence of a special brood pouch for brooding eggs.

Mevagissey is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) which along with National Parks, are considered to be the most special landscapes in the country and belong to an international family of protected areas.

I never have felt the need to belong to any exclusive, self-defining, or special group.

Therefore according to Hamer no real diseases exist and what established medicine calls a disease is in reality a " special meaningful program of nature " ( sinnvolles biologisches Sonderprogramm ) to which bacteria, viruses and fungi belong too.

Most STC members belong to one or more communities, which are either geographic chapters or special interest groups ( SIGs ).

The cemetery has a special section for those who do not belong to the Catholic religion, and a Jewish section.

To date the University has established 37 doctoral programs ( of which 6 belong to the first-category disciplines ), 92 Master ’ s programs ( including special programs like MBA, MPA and Master of Engineering ) and 9 postdoctoral programs.

As of special note, the products aimed at a wide demographic audience, with the resulting low price ( due to price elasticity of demand ), are said to belong to the mainstream niche — in practice referred to only as mainstream or of high demand.

As is well known, detergent actives belong to the chemical class consisting of moderately high molecular weight and highly polar molecules which exhibit the property of forming micelles in solution.

These are also sometimes called simply AC1, AC2, etc., and, somewhat confusingly, sometimes Roman numerals are used for these isoforms that all belong to the overall AC class III.

Thus this class of molecules belong to the D < sub > 2d </ sub > point group.

The enzymes belong to the molecular class D not molecular class A.

To belong to a set or class: " She could be a nurse.

) but phylogenetic analysis indicates that these symbionts belong to the alpha group of the class Proteobacteria, relating them to Rhizobium and Thiobacillus.

To the class of apologetic and dogmatic works belong:

IFNs belong to the large class of glycoproteins known as cytokines.

* Lidocaine and Novocaine belong to a class of local anesthetics which block sodium ion channels.

The last age had exhausted all its powers in giving a grace and nobleness to our mutual appetites, and in raising them into a higher class and order than seemed justly to belong to them.

In 1888, Austrian botanical physiologist Friedrich Reinitzer, working at the Charles University in Prague, examined the physico-chemical properties of various derivatives of cholesterol which now belong to the class of materials known as cholesteric liquid crystals.

The most common laterals are approximants and belong to the class of liquids, though lateral fricatives and affricates are common in some parts of the world.

Macrolides belong to the polyketide class of natural products.

All these “ outsider ” characters belong to a socially prestigious class and are well-educated.

These guide RNAs belong to the class of small nucleolar RNAs ( snoRNAs ) which are complexed with proteins and exist as small-nucleolar-ribonucleoproteins ( snoRNPs ).

A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its referent, such as sex, animacy, shape, but counting a given noun among nouns of such or another class is often clearly conventional.

All living things, as well as sacred things and things connected to the Earth are considered powerful and belong to the animate class.

They belong to the class of ray-finned fish, and comprise over 10, 000 species found in almost all aquatic environments.

Formally, this sharing of dynamics is referred to as universality, and systems with precisely the same critical exponents are said to belong to the same universality class.

Consonants are grouped into six classes for the purpose of rhyme: they need not be identical, but must belong to the same class.

The stars both belong to the spectral class B9V ; Rigel B is the more massive of the pair, at 2. 5 versus 1. 9 solar masses.

* Labyrinthulomycota: slime nets which belong to the super group Chromalveolata as the class Labyrinthulomycetes.