In the early 1980s, in search of the cytokine that triggers disease- associated weight loss and lethal shock, Anthony Cerami and Bruce Beutler purified “cachectin.” They soon found out that their malevolent cytokine already had another name—tumor necrosis factor (TNF)—and was being lauded as a potential antitumor agent.
The Rockefeller University Press
2007
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