This is an important function, and has many effects within the body.
It is directly related to Flesh Eating Syndrome and can kill a person in
short order.
24 hours or less. ( no flesh eating bacteria exists, it never did,
another lie )
You don't hear much about it. I often wonder why ?
Could be the page was torn from your doctors medical book. ( Like many others )
Or it could be, The AMA told them to keep their MOUTH SHUT !
Could be they skipped class on that day.
Nevertheless, it is the key to many ailments, disease, and many problems
within the body.
=============== Tumor necrosis factor
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF, cachexin or cachectin and formally known as
tumor necrosis factor-alpha) is a
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine>cytokine
involved in systemic
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation>inflammation
and is a member of a group of cytokines that all stimulate the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_phase_reaction>acute
phase reaction.
TNF causes
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis>apoptotic
cell death, cellular proliferation, differentiation,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation>inflammation,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumorigenesis>tumorigenesis,
and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_replication>viral
replication.
TNF's primary role is in the regulation of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_cells>immune
cells.
Dysregulation and, in particular, overproduction of TNF have been
implicated in a variety of human
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease>diseases,
as well as
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer>cancer.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF-%CE%B1#cite_note-pmid11239407-0>[1]
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