IL-1, interleukin 1..the fire crier

So last night my son Elliot and I were going to watch the new TEBOW play (Nick #15) and I asked him to help me learn some medical terminology..Now this is some of the most boring terminology you can get..Interleukin's and what they do in immunology..So we decided to make it fun. So now in never before published form is the new NFL/High School version of Interleukin methodology preserved for all generations to see in the future and to never forget. Boring but important....for you see, interleukins are the bodies way of signaling other parts of the bodies when and how to fight defensively to keep infection at bay...and infection is out there all the time attempting to wrest health from us... and so it really is like a football game all the time..

Let me first introduce some terminology and who they are represented by then we will tell the story.

IL-1--This is represented by an all everything guy named J. Jenkin. a football player of a local high school. He was taught by defensive coaches so we say that he was secreted by macrophages to clean up situations especially messed up by our offense. He is a go to the ball kind of guy and so he looks to get in "messy situations" and bring other players to the scene to help out thus he represents IL-1's ability to recruit white blood cells and activates the ends (endothelium) to express their hands and arms (adhesion molecules) in other words..this dude is a town crier on the football team a fire Crier....COME OVER HERE..WE NEED HELP NOW!!!!

and that is IL-1--J.J. the Fire Crier---