Immunologic Factor
gamma-chemokines
Subclass of:
chemokine
Definitions related to gamma-chemokines:
  • (chemokines, c) Group of chemokines without adjacent cysteines that are chemoattractants for lymphocytes only.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (gamma chemokine) Gamma chemokines are cytokines that lack adjacent cysteine residues and act as chemoattractants for lymphocytes. Most members of the chemokind family have at least four conserved cysteine residues that form two intramolecular disulfide bonds.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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