Pulmonary TNFα has been linked to reduced exercise capacity in a subset of patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We hypothesized that prolonged, high expression of pulmonary TNFα impairs cardiac and skeletal muscle function, and both contribute to exercise limitation. Using a surfactant protein C promoter-TNFα construct, TNFα was overexpressed throughout...

Background: Tumor Necrosis Factor α (TNFα) upregulation during acute inflammatory response has been associated with numerous cardiac effects including modulating Connexin43 and vascular permeability. This may in turn alter cardiac gap junctional (GJ) coupling and extracellular volume (ephaptic coupling) respectively. We hypothesized that acute exposure to pathophysiological TNFα levels can modu...

INTRODUCTION TNFα is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays a central role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated the effects of certolizumab pegol, a TNFα blocker, on endothelial cell function and angiogenesis. METHODS Human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMVECs) were stimulated with TNFα with or without certolizumab pegol. TNFα-induced adhesion molecule ex...

tumor necrosis factor -alpha (tnfα) is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays critical roles in the regulation of immune responses including macrophages activity and apoptosis. tnfα gene is polymorphic and its haplotypes have been associated with resistance or susceptibility to disease. this study was undertaken to identify the polymorphism of tnfα gene in makoei sheep, using polymerase chain re...

The effect of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) on cartilage matrix degradation is mediated by its transport and binding within the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the tissue, which mediates availability to cell receptors. Since the bioactive form of TNFα is a homotrimer of monomeric subunits, conversion between trimeric and monomeric forms during intratissue transport may affect binding to ECM and,...

زۆربەى لێکۆڵينەوەکان کە لە سەر ناوچەى ئاکرێ نووسراون زیاتر لایەنەکانى سیاسى و کارگێڕى سەربازى دەگرێتەوە, کاتێکدا بوارە گرنگەکانى ديكه‌ى ژیان فەرامۆش کراون، بە تایبەتى لایەنى ئابوورى نێویشيدا بوارى کشتوکاڵ زەورى زار، پەیوەندى راستەوخۆى لەگەڵ ژیانى مروڤدا هەیە, سەرەڕاى ئەمەش لەچاو کەمتر بایەخى پێ دراوە, بۆیە پێمان باش بوو لەسەر ئەم بابەتە بنووسين. ئامانجى سەرەکیشمان ئەوەیە بەم لێکۆڵینەوە لایەنێکى...

BACKGROUND Proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) induces β-adrenergic receptor (βAR) desensitization, but mechanisms proximal to the receptor in contributing to cardiac dysfunction are not known. METHODS AND RESULTS Two different proinflammatory transgenic mouse models with cardiac overexpression of myotrophin (a prohypertrophic molecule) or TNFα showed that TNFα alone is su...

INTRODUCTION Elevated serum levels of the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) correlate with an increased risk for atherothrombotic events and TNFα is known to induce prothrombotic molecules in endothelial cells. Based on the preexisting evidence for the impact of TNFα in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders and their known association with an acquired hypercoagulabi...

BACKGROUND B and T cells play a key role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathophysiology. RasGRP1 and RasGRP3 are involved in T and B cell receptors signaling, and belong to gene combination able to predict infliximab responsiveness, leading to the question of RasGRP1 and RasGRP3 involvement in RA. METHODS RasGRP1 and RasGRP3 expression levels were measured by qRT-PCR and/or western-blot in peri...