title: Cytokines: communication molecules that influence the process of disease.
abstract: Subset of T lymphocytes that produce different cytokine patterns have reinforced the cellular- and humoral-mediated duality of the immune response. Thus, different cytokines selectively produced by different T cells results in the Th1/Th2 T cell paradigm. These T cell subsets, in an ever widening circle of examined diseases, contribute to the resolution or persistence of a disease. Now, it is timely to examine the contribution of the cytokines produced in different disease states for the improvement of vaccines and therapies for domestic animals.
authors.affiliation: GAS@AHABS.WISC.EDU
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Splitter
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D016207:Cytokines / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000276:immunology / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines