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Lack of association between interleukin-13 gene polymorphisms (-1055 C/T and +2044 G/A) in Iranian patients with lung cancer.
Molecular biology reports - 1 May 2009
Sameni Safoura, Ghayumi Mohammad Ali, Mortazavi Gholamreza, Faghih Zahra, Kashef Mohammad Amin, Ghaderi Abbas
Abstract excerpt
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death from cancer. Both immune cells and tumor cells play a key role in lung cancer immunity by secretion of cytokines and developing type-2 cell-mediated immune response. IL-13 is an immunoregulatory cytokine affecting tumor immunosurveillance by deviation of immune response from Th1 to Th2. In the present study we sought to determine the association of single...
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