CYTOKINES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

Research into cytokines has reached a challenging stage. Their importa nce to physiological and pathological processes is undoubted and the c linical application of both the molecules and their antagonists is of increasing importance. Every month more novel cytokine molecules are i dentified, each with a perplexing multiplicity and redundancy of actio n. In talks that ranged from rheumatoid arthritis, oncology and lympho cyte subsets, to transcription factors and xenopus mesoderm, a recent meeting in London discussed the latest cytokine news.