Cytokines are increasingly used in personalised therapy, such as the treatment of bone marrow aplasia as a result of chemotherapy
Cytokines are a class of natural mammalian peptides that are produced and set free in activated T-cells and other cells during the natural and specified immune response.
The cytokines have a large variety of functions such as proinflammatory, immuno-regulatory and control of the hematopoiesis (inflammatory cells).
They are important for the repair mechanism of cell damage and for many cells they are essential as growth factors. In the class of the cytokines we can find the interleukins (IL), interferons, growth factors (GM-CSF, G-CSF), monokines, and chemotaxis peptides.
Cytokines are increasingly used in personalised therapy ie, G-CSF against bone marrow aplasia as a result of chemotherapy and interferon against hairy cell leukemia and tumours.
Very important in this substance class are the interleukins which are mostly signal substances of the immune system and mediator substances responsible for the induction and the processing of T-cell mediated cytotoxic immune response as well as B-cell activation (antibody production).
Genaxxon now offers a large variety of substances of the cytokines family for research use.
As well as all human interleukins (1 to 15) Genaxxon can provide many other substances of this class like leptine, ovine growth hormone, human leukinferon, human interferon, human insuline like growth factor-I, human epidermal growth factor, human fibroblast growth factor, human granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor, human endostatin and more.
