[Growth factors and cytokines including VEGF, fibroblast growth factors, transforming growth factor-beta, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, CXCL1, CXCL8, and CCL2, and signal transduction proteins such as mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 and nuclear factor-kappaB, seem to be important pathogenetic molecules in COPD.]. 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