- endogenous pyrogen
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Fever-producing substance released by leucocytes (and Kuppfer cells in particular) that acts on the hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre. Now known to be interleukin 1.
Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.
endogenous pyrogen
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