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SUBMITTER: Shibata K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3749542 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shibata Kanako K Nomiyama Hisayuki H Yoshie Osamu O Tanase Sumio S
BioMed research international 20130807
Chemokines are a large family of small cytokines that are involved in host defence and body homeostasis through recruitment of cells expressing their receptors. Their genes are known to undergo rapid evolution. Therefore, the number and content of chemokine genes can be quite diverse among the different species, making the orthologous relationships often ambiguous even between closely related species. Given that rodents and rabbit are useful experimental models in medicine and drug development, ...[more]