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No association of serum levels of interleukin-6 and its soluble receptor components with a genetic variation in the 3'flanking region of the interleukin-6 gene in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Neuroscience letters - 24 Nov 2000
Schmidt S, Papassotiropoulos A, Bagli M, Harzheim M, Heun R, Klockgether T
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) plays an important role in the regulation of the inflammatory response in multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Previous reports indicated that a variable number tandem repeat (vntr) polymorphism in the 3'flanking region of the IL-6 gene (C allele) is associated with altered activity of IL-6 in vivo. Therefore, we analyzed the frequency...
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