[Subsequent to its release, substance P binds to neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptors on the surface of effector cells and, in addition to being a mediator of pain, it plays an important role in many inflammatory states including asthma, immune-complex-mediated lung injury, experimental arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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