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Cytokines and chemokines in uveitis: is there a correlation with clinical phenotype?
Clinical medicine & research - 1 Dec 2006
Ooi Kenneth G-J, Galatowicz Grazyna, Calder Virginia L, Lightman Susan L
Abstract excerpt
Uveitis is a general term for intraocular inflammation and includes a large number of clinical phenotypes. As a group of disorders, it is responsible for 10% of all registered blind patients under the age of 65 years. Immune-mediated uveitis may be associated with a systemic disease or may be localized to the eye. The pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-2, IL-6, interferon-gamma and tumor...
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