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Analysis of vascular endothelial growth factor gene 936 C/T polymorphism in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Feb 2008
Gunesacar R, Erken E, Ozer H T E, Bozkurt B, Dinkci S, Deveci D
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a cytokine that promotes endothelial cell proliferation, leucocyte chemotaxis and expression of adhesion molecules and is a major mediator of vascular permeability. It has been demonstrated that VEGF directly activates neutrophils and it could promote acute recruitment of leucocytes. It is known that neutrophils are the major cell population involved in acute...
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