Assertion: thalidomide | /r/CapableOf | inhibit important cytokine
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text: In 1991, working as a researcher at New York’s Rockefeller University, Gilla Kaplan, Ph.D, Professor of Medicine in the Laboratory of Mycobacterial Immunity and Pathogenesis at the Public Health Research Institute Center of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, demonstrated that thalidomide inhibited an important cytokine called tumor necrosis factor-alpha or TNF-α, which has multiple immunologic functions involving apoptosis, inflammation, tumorigenesis, and viral replication, by inducing TNF-α mRNA degradation.