Fraktaline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fraktaline is a noun meaning (biochemistry, immunology) A chemokine involved in chemical signalling in the immune system.
Meaning
(biochemistry, immunology) A chemokine involved in chemical signalling in the immune system.
Example Sentences
2013 October 12, Moheb Costandi The Mind Menders, New Scientist, No. 2938, page 46, For example, active neurons seem to signal their health by producing a substance called fraktaline, which might warn the microglia to leave its synapses alone.
2008, Marie-Pia d'Ortho, MMP's, inflammation and pulmonary arterial hypertension, Vincent Lagente, Elisabeth Boichot, Matrix Metalloproteinases in Tissue Remodelling and Inflammation, page 90, Lungs of IPAH patients have increased expression of fraktaline, a chemokine involved in T cell trafficking and monocyte recruitment, and their circulating CD4 and CD8 T cells have higher levels of the fraktaline receptor CX3CR1 when compared with controls or samples of patients with thromboembolic PAH.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fraktalkine, fractalkine, chemokinase, chymokine, cornifelin, kistrin.
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