How to Use cytokine storm in a Sentence

cytokine storm

noun

• This is called a cytokine storm.
  — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 26 Jan. 2026
• But in some cases of severe infection, the immune system can overcorrect and send out an excess amount of these proteins, a serious and potentially fatal reaction called a cytokine storm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
• Chan says most pharmaceutical cytokine storm treatments target individual cytokines.
  — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2020
• In many Ebola patients, this response can go overboard, causing a frenzy of immunological activity known as a cytokine storm – named for the proteins that stoke an inflammatory response.
  — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 2 June 2026
• Manson is careful to point out that fighting cytokine storms may only be relevant for a subgroup of critical COVID-19 patients.
  — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2020
• Chan’s company manufactures a blood purification cartridge called CytoSorb that reduces the intensity of a patient’s cytokine storm by physically binding to and removing cytokines from the blood, in a process similar to dialysis.
  — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2020