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Boiler Room (money) and interleukin-6 (medicine)


Boiler Room (money)


Definition: A place of business used to make high pressure promotions, via the telephone.

Definition: [crh] Used to describe place or operation in which unscrupulous salespeople call and try to sell people speculative, even fraudulent securities.







interleukin-6 (medicine)


interleukin-6
<cytokine> A cytokine that stimulates the growth and differentiation of human B-cells and is also a growth factor for hybridomas and plasmacytomas.

It is produced by many different cells including T-cells, monocytes, and fibroblasts. A single chain 25 kD cytokine originally described as a pre B-cell growth factor, now known to have effects on a number of Other cells including T-cells which are also stimulated to proliferate.

An inducer of acute phase proteins and a colony-stimulating factor acting on mouse bone marrow.

Acronym: IL-6