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Cytokines

Cell-secreted proteins, peptides or glycoproteins that affect cell behavior, for

example during wound healing, fibroblast proliferation, the expression of growth

factors by macrophages and the migration of neutrophils to the wound site.

Cytokines (e.g. tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and interleukin-1 (IL-1) are

released, mainly by polymorphonuclear leukocytes and macrophages, during

episodes of inflammation and are crucial to the normal healing process.

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