Question: What does an elevated tumor necrosis factor mean?
Is tumor necrosis factor bad? Studies have shown that patients with FA have abnormally high levels of proinflammatory TNF-α, low levels of natural killer cell activity and reduced lymphocyte counts, and are highly susceptible to bacterial infection (78-80). What are the effects of tumor necrosis factor? Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a multifunctional cytokine that …