[In the cytokine cascade, a central position is occupied by that molecule known as `cachectin` or `tumor necrosis factor,` because this molecule, more than any other, has been shown to mediate the biologic effects of LPS, and to provoke a state of wasting very similar to that observed in cancer cachexia.]. 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