Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some ...

A study found a link between severe infections and neurological conditions, like dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Cytokines are small proteins released by many different cells in the body, including those of the immune system where they coordinate the body’s response against infection and trigger inflammation.

Cytokines are small proteins that serve as the fundamental chemical messengers of the immune system. They also play a key cell signaling role in stem cell biology, relaying messages that direct stem ...

Sino Biological offers cytokines, marker antibodies, and identification kits for MSC culture to assist in research and development. Schematic overview of cytokines involved in NSC differentiation.

Two new papers uncover IL-17 biology and add to growing evidence that cytokines can influence behavior during illness.

According to a case–control study published in Neurology, the expression of proinflammatory cytokines is elevated in the affected skin of patients with small-fiber neuropathy (SFN).

The work, conducted in mice and funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, pinpoints the molecular roots of the phenomenon and shows how immune molecules called cytokines influence brain ...