{"id":7652,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cytokines\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:11","slug":"cytokines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cytokines\/","title":{"rendered":"Cytokines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any of numerous hormone-like, low-molecular-weight proteins, chemically identified as purines, secreted by various cell types that regulate the intensity and duration of immune response and mediate cell-cell communication, as well as acting as signals in cell survival, growth, differentiation and apoptosis. &nbsp;Examples include interferon, interleukin, lymphokine, chemokines and various growth factors.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"apoptosis_-or_cell_death-\">Apoptosis (or cell death)<\/a>, <a href=\"differentiation_-embryology-\">Differentiation (embryology)<\/a>, <a href=\"fibroblast_growth_factor_-fgf-\">Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)<\/a>, <a href=\"growth_factors\">Growth factors<\/a>, <a href=\"polarizer\">Polarizer<\/a>, <a href=\"proteins\">Proteins<\/a>, <a href=\"purines\">Purines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of numerous hormone-like, low-molecular-weight proteins, chemically identified as purines, secreted by various cell types that regulate the intensity and duration of immune response and mediate cell-cell communication, as well as acting as signals in cell survival, growth, differentiation and apoptosis. &nbsp;Examples include interferon, interleukin, lymphokine, chemokines and various growth factors. See Apoptosis (or cell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cytokines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cytokines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}