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Disturbed sleep in pediatric patients with leukemia: the potential role of interleukin-6 (-174GC) and tumor necrosis factor (-308GA) polymorphism.
Oncology nursing forum - 1 Sept 2011
Vallance Kelly, Yang Jie, Li Jiang, Crabtree Valerie McLaughlin, Hinds Pamela S, Mandrell Belinda N
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To explore an association between sleep quality in children and adolescents undergoing therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and polymorphisms in two proinflammatory cytokines, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). DESIGN: Retrospective exploratory analysis using data from a multi-institutional prospective study comparing objective sleep measures by actigraphy over 10...
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