Biological process

GO:0002374, GO:0002375

The appearance of a cytokine due to biosynthesis or secretion following a cellular stimulus contributing to an immune response, resulting in an increase in its intracellular or extracellular levels.

cytokine production during immune response, cytokine secretion during immune response, cytokine secretion involved in immune response

Note that this term is in the subset of terms that should not be used for direct gene product annotation. Instead, select one of the 'regulation' children terms.