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Cytokine gene polymorphisms in retinal detachment patients with and without proliferative vitreoretinopathy: a preliminary study.
Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica - 1 Jun 2006
Sanabria Ruiz-Colmenares Maria Rosa, Pastor Jimeno José Carlos, Garrote Adrados José Antonio, Telleria Orriols Juan José, Yugueros Fernández Maria Isabel
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PURPOSE: Cytokines and other growth factors such as interleukins play an important role in the pathogenesis of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). Interindividual variations in cytokine production seem to correlate with some cytokine gene polymorphisms. The purpose of this study was to analyse the distribution of these cytokine gene variants in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) with and...
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