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Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)

Lloyd J. Old
- 08 Nov 1985 - 
- Vol. 230, Iss: 4726, pp 630-632
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This article is published in Science.The article was published on 1985-11-08. It has received 2505 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Recombinant tumor necrosis factor & Tumor necrosis factor alpha.

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An endotoxin-induced serum factor that causes necrosis of tumors

TL;DR: It is proposed that TNF mediates endotoxin-induced tumor necrosis, and that it may be responsible for the suppression of transformed cells by activated macrophages.
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Human tumour necrosis factor: precursor structure, expression and homology to lymphotoxin.

TL;DR: Recombinant tumour necrosis factor can be obtained by expression of its complementary DNA in Escherichia coli and induces the haemorrhagic necrosis of transplanted methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas in syngeneic mice.
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Identity of tumour necrosis factor and the macrophage-secreted factor cachectin.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the ‘cachectin’ and ‘TNF’ activities of murine macrophage conditioned medium are attributable to a single protein, which modulates the metabolic activities of normal as well as neoplastic cells through interaction with specific high-affinity receptors.
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Activation of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil functions by interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factors.

TL;DR: Although lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a potent stimulator of PMN function, polymyxin B can block LPS-induced but not lymphokine-induced activation, demonstrating new activities for both TNF-alpha and T NF-beta in augmenting the phagocytic and cytotoxic activities of PMn.
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Purification of cachectin, a lipoprotein lipase-suppressing hormone secreted by endotoxin-induced RAW 264.7 cells.

TL;DR: The purification of cachectin to apparent homogeneity and characterization of its receptor should facilitate further investigations into the role of Cachectin and other macrophage mediators in the metabolic derangements that occur during infection and cachexia.
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