TQ has been showed effective in rheumatoid arthritis and the protective effects of TQ showed mediated via reduction in interleukins (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) in adjuvant-induced arthritis, the major culprits of inflammatory responses (Tekeoglu et al., 2006; Vaillancourt et al., 2011). The gene discussed is TNF; the disease is rheumatoid arthritis.