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YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM/INTERLEUKIN: FROM CELL EATER TO T-CELL TO B-CELL
Another example of immune-system cooperation is interleukin. Macrophages produce a substance called interleukin-I (IL-I), which leads to an increase in T-cells. The T-cells then manufacture interleukin-II (IL-2), which helps get the B-cells producing antibodies.
Interleukin-II has recently been hailed as an amazing breakthrough in the war against canceV. It seems that the immune systems of some cancer patients don’t fully mobilize to fight the cancer. For what ever reason, the antigen (cancer) doesn’t elicit a full immune response; the immune system doesn’t seem to pay proper attention to the problem. New studies have described how scientists took blood from these cancer patients, separated out the lymphocytes and mixed them with interleukin-II. The lymphocyte/interleukin complexes were injected back into the bloodstream, and the rejuvenated lymphocytes were better able to attack the cancer.
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