interferon gamma

noun

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Immune-boosting strategies could also be used in people who are already sick; in an experiment at the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Colorado, interferon gamma is being given to patients with multidrug-resistant TB. Mark Caldwell, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 For example, Casanova and others have found more than a dozen mutations that disrupt the body's ability to battle non-TB mycobacteria, and all of them mess with interferon gamma—a key immune system activator. Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 July 2018

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First Known Use

circa 1982, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of interferon gamma was circa 1982

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interferon gamma

noun
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