Protein Information

Name tumor necrosis factor alpha
Synonyms Cachectin; DIF; TNF; TNF alpha; TNF a; TNFA; TNFSF 2; TNFSF2…

Compound Information

Name acrolein
CAS 2-propenal

Reference List

PubMed Abstract RScore(About this table)
15650393 Valacchi G, Pagnin E, Phung A, Nardini M, Schock BC, Cross CE, van der Vliet A: Inhibition of NFkappaB activation and IL-8 expression in human bronchial epithelial cells by acrolein. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2005 Jan-Feb;7(1-2):25-31.

Studies of nuclear factor-kappaB (NFkappaB) activation, an essential event in IL-8 production, showed decreased TNFalpha-induced NFkappaB activation by acrolein, illustrated by inhibition of nuclear translocation of NFkappaB and reduced IkappaBalpha degradation.
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10198352 Borchers MT, Carty MP, Leikauf GD: Regulation of human airway mucins by acrolein and inflammatory mediators. Am J Physiol. 1999 Apr;276(4 Pt 1):L549-55.

MUC5AC mRNA levels increased after >/=0.01 nM acrolein, 10 microM prostaglandin E2 or 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, 1.0 nM tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), or 10 nM phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (a protein kinase C activator).
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18514610 Parikh JG, Saraswathy S, Rao NA: Photoreceptor oxidative damage in sympathetic ophthalmia. . Am J Ophthalmol. 2008 Dec;146(6):866-75.e2. Epub 2008 Jun 2.

Deparaffinized sections of the globes were processed to localize tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 (TNF-R1), acrolein, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and nitrotyrosine by immunolocalization method.
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18304597 Liao BC, Hsieh CW, Liu YC, Tzeng TT, Sun YW, Wung BS: Cinnamaldehyde inhibits the tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced expression of cell adhesion molecules in endothelial cells by suppressing NF-kappaB activation: effects upon IkappaB and Nrf2. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2008 Jun 1;229(2):161-71. Epub 2008 Feb 5.

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11956484 Ribeiro RA, Freitas HC, Campos MC, Santos CC, Figueiredo FC, Brito GA, Cunha FQ: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1beta mediate the production of nitric oxide involved in the pathogenesis of ifosfamide induced hemorrhagic cystitis in mice. J Urol. 2002 May;167(5):2229-34.

Ifosfamide injected mice were pretreated with 10 to 40 mg./kg. of the nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor L-NG-nitroarginine methyl ester, 80 mg./kg. of mesna, a chemical antagonist of acrolein and the urotoxic metabolite of ifosfamide, 50 microl. antiserum against TNF-alpha and IL-1beta per mouse, 45 mg./kg. of the selective TNF-alpha synthesis inhibitor thalidomide or 200 mg./kg. of the TNF-alpha and IL-1beta synthesis inhibitor pentoxifylline.
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11948286 Malley SE, Vizzard MA: Changes in urinary bladder cytokine mRNA and protein after cyclophosphamide-induced cystitis. Physiol Genomics. 2002;9(1):5-13.


An RNase protection assay was used to measure changes in rat bladder cytokine mRNA [interferon-gamma (IFN)-gamma, interleukin-1alpha/beta (IL-1alpha/beta), IL-2, IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha/beta (TNF-alpha/beta)] after acute (4 h), intermediate (48 h), or chronic (10 day) cystitis.
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19080078 Wang X, Li JQ, Chen L, Wang HX, Sun BB, Wang T, Xu D, Wen FQ: [Effects of phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor on the mucin secretion in airway stimulated with acrolein: experiment with rats]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2008 Nov 18;88(42):2988-93.

Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was acquired for cell count, and ELISA was used to detect the levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC)-1 in the BALF.
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17225077 Korkmaz A, Topal T, Oter S: Pathophysiological aspects of cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide induced hemorrhagic cystitis; implication of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species as well as PARP activation. Cell Biol Toxicol. 2007 Sep;23(5):303-12. Epub 2007 Jan 15.

Acrolein is the main molecule responsible of this side-effect and mesna (2-mercaptoethane sulfonate) is the commonly used preventive agent.
Thus, many cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and the interleukin (IL) family and transcription factors such as nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) and activator protein-1 (AP-1) also play a role in its pathogenesis.
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17868967 Chao LK, Hua KF, Hsu HY, Cheng SS, Lin IF, Chen CJ, Chen ST, Chang ST: Cinnamaldehyde inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines secretion from monocytes/macrophages through suppression of intracellular signaling. Food Chem Toxicol. 2008 Jan;46(1):220-31. Epub 2007 Aug 8.


Although Cinnamaldehyde has been reported to have contact sensitizing properties at high concentration (mM), we found that low concentration of Cinnamaldehyde (muM) inhibited the secretion of interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha within lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or lipoteichoic acid (LTA) stimulated murine J774A.1 macrophages.
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19464576 Liu DS, Liu WJ, Chen L, Ou XM, Wang T, Feng YL, Zhang SF, Xu D, Chen YJ, Wen FQ: Rosiglitazone, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma agonist, attenuates acrolein-induced airway mucus hypersecretion in rats. Toxicology. 2009 Jun 16;260(1-3):112-9. Epub 2009 Apr 5.

The expressions of Muc5ac protein and mRNA, and infiltration of inflammatory cells and levels of inflammatory cytokines (interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-8 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) were detected with real-time PCR, Western blot, cell counting and ELISA.
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17491020 Lambert C, Li J, Jonscher K, Yang TC, Reigan P, Quintana M, Harvey J, Freed BM: Acrolein inhibits cytokine gene expression by alkylating cysteine and arginine residues in the NF-kappaB1 DNA binding domain. J Biol Chem. 2007 Jul 6;282(27):19666-75. Epub 2007 May 9.

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11282106 Xu X, Cubeddu LX, Malave A: Expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in primary culture of rat bladder smooth muscle cells by plasma from cyclophosphamide-treated rats. Eur J Pharmacol. 2001 Mar 23;416(1-2):1-9.


However, exposure to cyclophosphamide or to its metabolite acrolein (10 (-6)-10 (-4) M for 24 h) did not increase iNOS or NO-metabolite levels.
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