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Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) 2518G/A gene polymorphism in Turkish type 2 diabetes patients with nephropathy.
Endocrine - 1 Jun 2010
Karadeniz M, Erdogan M, Cetinkalp Sevki, Berdeli A, Eroglu Z, Ozgen A G
Abstract excerpt
Tissue macrophage accumulation is thought to induce insulin resistance during obesity and stimulate the progression of diabetic nephropathy (DN). The objective of this study was to investigate genotypic and allelic frequencies of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) gene polymorphism in the healthy and patients with and without DN. The MCP-1 genotypes were determined in 43 patients with nephropathy and 43...
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