What are cytokines; what role do they play in cancer treatment? Give an example of one in your answer.

Biology

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ludmilkaskok [199]3 years ago

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Answer and Explanation:

Cytokines is the molecule which has the ability to communicate with the immune system cells to target on antigen by generating a response. It is mostly comprised of protein in a group along with peptides.

They are involved in the cancer treatment by production of the signalling molecules that gets involved in the method of stimulating and mobilize the immune system and thus cytokines come into the action for preventing the cancer by providing anti-inflammatory action,anti-cancer cell etc.

<u>Example</u>- In case of ovarian cancer,there is the majority of the immuno-suppressive action and thus there is production of the anti-inflammatory cytokines and thus maintain the immune system.

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