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Interleukin-18 gene polymorphisms and haplotypes in patients with oral lichen planus: a study in an ethnic Chinese cohort.
Tissue antigens - 1 Nov 2007
Bai J, Zhang Y, Lin M, Zeng X, Wang Z, Shen J, Jiang L, Gao F, Chen Q
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin (IL)-18, a proinflammatory cytokine, induces T-helper 1 differentiation and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte functions, both of which have been proposed in the pathogenesis of oral lichen planus (OLP) - an oral disease resembles oral mucosal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) both clinically and histologically. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the...
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