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Influence of IL-6 haplotypes on clinical and inflammatory response in aggressive periodontitis.
Clinical oral investigations - 1 May 2013
Nibali L, Pelekos G, D'Aiuto F, Chaudhary N, Habeeb R, Ready D, Parkar M, Donos N
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the inflammatory response in aggressive periodontitis (AgP) patients after periodontal therapy and associate these changes to subjects' interleukin-6 (IL-6) genetic variants. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twelve non-smoking UK Caucasian patients with AgP were selected based on their IL6 haplotypes (six haplotype positive and six haplotype negative based on...
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