Fish Cytokines and Immune Response

1. Introduction

1.1. Innate and adaptive immune response

1.2. Fish immune response

1.3. Fish cytokines

1.4. Pro-inflammatory fish cytokines

1.4.1. Tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα)

1.4.2. Interleukin 1 family

1.4.2.1. Interleukin 1β

1.4.2.2. Interleukin 18

1.4.3. Other pro-inflammatory cytokines

1.4.3.1. Interleukin 6

1.4.3.2. Interleukin 11

1.5. Chemokines

1.5.1. Interleukin 8

1.6. The interleukin 2 family

1.6.1. Interleukin 2

1.6.2. Interleukin 4

1.6.3. Interleukin 7

1.6.4. Interleukin 15

1.6.5. Interleukin 21

1.7. The interleukin 10 family

1.7.1. Interleukin 10

1.7.2. Interleukin 20 (IL-20Like)

1.7.3. Interleukin 22/26

1.8. The interleukin 17 family

1.9. Interleukin 12

1.10. Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β)

1.11. Interferons

1.12. Tools for fish cytokine analysis

1.13. Suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH)

1.14. Microarrays

1.15. Studies with bacterial pathogens, PAMPs and cytokine network interactions

1.16. Wide screening in fish challenged with viral pathogens

2. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgments

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