title: The role of the cytokines, interferon alpha and tumor necrosis factor in the hypertriglyceridemia and wasting of AIDs.
abstract: The hypertriglyceridemia of infection is mediated by many of the cytokines that regulate the immune response, including the tumor necrosis factors, the interleukins and the interferons. In the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), hypertriglyceridemia is most likely due to increased circulating levels of interferon alpha. Both in AIDS and in animal models there is no direct association between the presence of hypertriglyceridemia and the syndrome of wasting. Rather, circulating lipoproteins may neutralize infectious organisms and therefore contribute to host defense.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grunfeld
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Feingold
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000818:Animals; D002100:Cachexia / Q000150:complications*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000150:complications*; D016898:Interferon-alpha / Q000502:physiology*; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D016898:Interferon-alpha; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha