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Interleukin-5

"Interleukin-5" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A cytokine that promotes differentiation and activation of EOSINOPHILS. It also triggers activated B-LYMPHOCYTES to differentiate into IMMUNOGLOBULIN-secreting cells.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Interleukin-5" by people in this website by year, and whether "Interleukin-5" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 25 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2017
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