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May genetic factors in fibromyalgia help to identify patients with differentially altered frequencies of immune cells?
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Dec 2008
Carvalho L S C, Correa H, Silva G C, Campos F S, Baião F R, Ribeiro L S, Faria A M, d'Avila Reis D
Abstract excerpt
There is common agreement that fibromyalgia (FM) is an extremely heterogeneous entity. Patients differ in their clinical symptoms, endocrine and immune parameters. In this study we evaluated endocrine and immunological features of distinct subsets of FM patients. In contrast to previous attempts to identify subsets of FM patients, based solely on their psychological and cognitive features, herein we propose to...
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