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Corticotropin releasing hormone promoter polymorphisms in giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Gonzalez-Gay M A, Hajeer A H, Dababneh A, Garcia-Porrua C, Amoli M M, Thomson W, Ollier W E R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are different but overlapping diseases of unknown etiology affecting the elderly. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) helps to regulate the immune response and maintain homeostasis during inflammatory stress. CRH promoter region polymorphisms in the 5'regulatory region of the CRH gene have been described. To investigate the...
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