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No association between cytokine gene polymorphism and risk of Alzheimer's disease in Slovaks.
Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis - 1 Jan 2010
Shawkatová Ivana, Javor Juraj, Párnická Zuzana, Vrazda L'ubomír, Novák Michal, Buc Milan
Abstract excerpt
Clinical and immunopathological evidence support a potential role of inflammatory cytokines in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, studies examining the association between cytokine gene polymorphisms and risk of developing AD yielded conflicting results. The objective of our study was to evaluate the association between the functional polymorphisms in the TNF-alpha, TGF-beta1, IL-10, IL-6 and IFN-gamma genes,...
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