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Association of interleukin-2, interleukin-4 and transforming growth factor-beta gene polymorphisms with Behcet's disease.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Shahram Farhad, Nikoopour Enayat, Rezaei Nima, Saeedfar Kayvan, Ziaei Naghmeh, Davatchi Fereydoun, Amirzargar Aliakbar
Abstract excerpt
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic immune-mediated disease, characterised by oral and genital lesions and ocular inflammation. As cytokines seem to have important roles in the pathogenesis of BD and production of cytokines could be affected by genetic polymorphisms, this study was performed to investigate gene polymorphisms of a number of cytokines in the patients with BD in comparison with control subjects. One...
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