[Using quantitative real-time PCR, we could show that the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and interleukin 6 (IL-6) significantly increased in peripheral blood leukocytes from MetS subjects (n=39) compared to no MetS subjects (n=35) 2 h after an oral glucose tolerance test (ICAM-1 +52%, TNF-alpha +107%, and IL-6 +38%) and also in vitro after 72 h cultivation in high-glucose medium (ICAM-1 +74%, TNF-alpha +71%, and IL-6 +44%).]. 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