[In retinal endothelial cells, TNFalpha stimulates the expression of VEGF-C, which in turn protects endothelial cells from apoptosis induced by TNFalpha or hyperglycaemia via VEGFR-2 and thus helps sustain retinal neovascularisation.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE