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    • blood tumor necrosis factor amount   VT:0008552   (0)
    Definition: The proportion, quantity, or volume in whole blood, serum, or plasma of a serum glycoprotein produced by activated macrophages and NK cells and involved in initiating local inflammatory responses, particularly by its action on the endothelium of local blood vessels; its actions result in increased vascular permeability and induction of expression of adhesion molecules on the endothelium. [ISBN:0-8153-1691-7, MeSH:D014409];
      (No descendants that are mapped to MPD data)



    MP:0008552 (abnormal circulating tumor necrosis factor level) is numbered similarly to VT:0008552 but is over in the MP ontology (semantics may or may not be similar).

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