How to Use cytokine in a Sentence

cytokine

noun

• The storm idea has so far centered on one cytokine, interleukin-6, or il-6.
  — Gina Kolata, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• The response spun out of control, like the cytokine storm that kills so many Covid-19 patients.
  — Jonah Bader, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
• The study is the second this month announced by the U to target the cytokine storm reaction.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Chronic lack of sleep causes the body to make more proteins in cells called cytokines.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 25 May 2023
• For now, the cytokine sensing part of the device needs to be replaced daily.
  — Dallas News, 16 July 2021
• The cytokines speed up T cell cloning and knock down regulatory T cells, which put the brakes on the cloning process.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
• Perhaps the cytokine that testosterone induces mast cells to make, interleukin-33, might one day join them.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• If the T cells do release cytokines, that will mean the vaccine worked as intended.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
• The researchers searched for drugs that could stem the flood of cytokines that the body releases in response to infection.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2016
• Kelsey's immune system had reached this point, known to doctors as a cytokine storm.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• While cytokines are a vital part of the body's immune response, too much can cause what's known as a cytokine storm.
  — Alessandria Masi, CNN, 23 May 2021
• That signal involves the production of a type of cytokine called a Janus kinase, or JAK.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• Near the end of the piece, the same researcher is attributed as saying that the myeloid defects could be at the root of the runaway cytokine responses.
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2020
• When that happens, the immune system can do more harm than good, attacking the body in what is called a cytokine storm.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
• In what’s known as a cytokine storm, fever and inflammation spike out of control.
  — Clifford Marks, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2020
• In a cytokine storm, the immune system goes into overdrive and winds up killing both healthy and diseased cells.
  — Mark Johnson, USA TODAY, 18 May 2020
• Based on the light that the cells shoot back, Sacha will know if the T cells produced cytokines, a type of immune system attack chemical.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
• The effect is the same as having a mutation that disrupts the production of that cytokine.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2020
• Gust interprets it as a patient’s symptoms having more to do with cytokines than the CAR-T cells.
  — Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• Those who got anakinra had a 72% lower chance of exhibiting signs of cytokine storm.
  — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• His body went through a cytokine storm, where the immune system attacks itself.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• Four of the children ultimately died — not from the treatment or a cytokine storm, but from their cancer.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
• The question then remains how best to treat a cytokine storm syndrome once it is identified.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2020
• In severe cases, the immune system churned out a flood of cytokine proteins.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2020
• The researchers injected some of the mice with the cytokines interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor.
  — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
• And then, when the hordes are vanquished, more cytokines are released that signal the battle is over and your immune soldiers can head back to their barracks.
  — Houston Chronicle, 13 May 2018
• This, in theory, would help to decrease the severity of the cytokine storm and help people to recover faster.
  — Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2023
• Another potential strategy is to deplete the macrophage that churn out the culprit cytokines, Huang says—that, too, worked in the mice.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
• In particular, experts highlight the role that inflammatory cytokines may play in autism risk.
  — Markham Heid, TIME, 26 July 2024
• In one study, proinflammatory cytokines (molecules that promote inflammation) were reduced in people who were treated with colloidal oatmeal.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024