TNF and bacterial vaginosis: Prolonged treatments of Ect cells under these conditions with a mixture of vaginal microbiota metabolites representing BV caused an increase in the production of TNFα from unstimulated cells (p = 0.03, Figure 3C) and potentiated the TLR-elicited production of TNFα for Pam and BV-stimulated cells compared to cells treated with Pam alone (p = 0.03).