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Association study of ghrelin receptor gene polymorphisms in rheumatoid arthritis.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Robledo G, Rueda B, Gonzalez-Gay M A, Fernández B, Lamas J R, Balsa A, Pascual-Salcedo D, García A, Raya E, Martín J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Ghrelin is a newly characterised growth hormone (GH) releasing peptide widely distributed that may play an important role in the regulation of metabolic balance in inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by decreasing the pro-inflammatory Th1 responses. In this study we investigated the possible contribution of several polymorphisms in the functional Ghrelin receptor to RA...
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