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Clinical evaluation of interferon-gamma treatment to chronic granulomatous disease patients with splice site mutations.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2004
Nunoi Hiroyuki, Ishibashi Fuminari, Mizukami Tomoyuki, Hidaka Fumio
Abstract excerpt
IFN-gamma dependent increase of superoxide production by neutrophils was observed in three patients with Chronic Granulomatous disease from one family. The patients have the gp91-phox defect due to a splicing abnormality derived from a silent mutation adjacent to the third intron of CYBB gene. Apparent differences of splicing pattern of CYBB gene transcripts in patients' neutrophils were detected between 1 and 25...
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