title: [Functional redundancy and its significance of cytokine and transcription factor--a concise review].
abstract: The term "functional redundancy" has been used as key words in foreign literature recently. However, it is rarely appeared in Chinese literature. Functional redundancy is an important characteristic of cytokines and transcription factors. The author gives personal opinion on this term for discussion.
authors.affiliation: Stat Key Laboratory for Experimental Hematology, Institute of Hematology, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin 300020, China.
authors.forename: Ke-Fu
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D014157:Transcription Factors