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Functional polymorphisms of interleukin 4 and interleukin 10 may predict evolution and functional outcome of an ischaemic stroke.
European journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2011
Marousi S, Ellul J, Antonacopoulou A, Gogos C, Papathanasopoulos P, Karakantza M
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Inflammatory cytokines are involved in the systemic inflammation, which precedes an ischaemic stroke (IS), and also participate into brain ischaemia-reperfusion injury. We sought to investigate whether functional polymorphisms of two anti-inflammatory molecules, interleukin (IL)4-589C>T and IL10-1082G>A, might be associated with the occurrence, clinical course and functional outcome of an...
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