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IL-6 and IL-10 promoter gene polymorphisms in psoriasis vulgaris.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 2008
Baran Wojciech, Szepietowski Jacek C, Mazur Grzegorz, Baran Eugeniusz
Abstract excerpt
Overexpression of IL-6 has been implicated in the pathology of numerous autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases, including psoriasis, and relative deficiency of IL-10 in psoriatic patients seems to be important in the development of this disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between IL-6 and IL-10 single nucleotide polymorphisms and susceptibility to psoriasis vulgaris. DNA from...
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