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Tumor Necrosis Factor: Function, Release and Clearance.
Critical reviews in immunology - 1 Jan 2017
Bemelmans M H A, van Tits L J H, Buurman W A
Abstract excerpt
Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) is a multifunctional cytokine. It plays an important role in the pathophysiology of several diseases. Recently, it has been discovered that TNF is circulating in two different forms, a bioactive form and an immunologically detectable form. These two forms of TNF show different clearance kinetics. The immunological form is supposed to be an inactivated TNF protein. For this...
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