Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: kaleidoscopic (Adjective). Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope. kaleidoscopic (Adjective). Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
The Duffy blood group antigen serves not only as blood group antigen, but also as a receptor for a family of proinflammatory cytokines termed chemokines, and as a receptor for Plasmodium vivax malaria parasites.ndividuals with the Duffy-negative phenotype are resistant to P. vivax invasion, and the molecular mechanism that gives rise to the phenotype Fy(a-b -) in black individuals has been associated with a point mutation - 33TC expressed in homozigosity in the FYB allele [5].
On August 1, 2016, the Giants traded Duffy to the Tampa Bay Rays along with Lucius Fox and Michael Santos for Matt Moore. Duffy made his Rays debut on August 12, 2016, he went 1-4 with a single. On September 7 the Rays shut Duffy down for the season to have surgery on his Achilles.