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Correlation between transcranial interleukin-6 gradient and outcome in patients with acute brain injury.
Critical care medicine - 1 Mar 2003
Miñambres Eduardo, Cemborain Arantxa, Sánchez-Velasco Pablo, Gandarillas Marco, Díaz-Regañón Genaro, Sánchez-González Ubaldo, Leyva-Cobián Francisco
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to examine both brain and systemic interleukin-6 (IL-6) release in patients with an acute brain injury (ABI), to study whether a correlation exists between the transcranial IL-6 gradient during the first days after injury and prognosis, and finally, to investigate the relationship between a nucleotide polymorphism at position -174 in the promoter of the gene encoding IL-6, IL-6...
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