Definition of "immunoregulatory" [immunoregulatory]

• Of or pertaining to immunoregulation (adjective)

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• "Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic, relapsing disorder of unknown immunoregulatory dysfunction."
• "The SH2D1A gene produces a protein called SAP, which regulates how white blood cells combat infections such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and controls how they produce antibodies and other immunoregulatory molecules."
• "Therefore, the difference in immune responses generated by the adoptive transfer of the DC subsets observed in our study is more likely reflecting a functional difference of the subsets in activating/modulating T cell responses rather than their difference in handling the microbes/antigens, especially considering the dramatic difference of the DC subsets in the expression of co-stimulatory molecules and the production of immunoregulatory cytokines."