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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