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The impact of IL18 gene polymorphisms on mRNA levels and interleukin-18 release by peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Postepy higieny i medycyny doswiadczalnej (Online) - 20 Jun 2012
Dziedziejko Violetta, Kurzawski Mateusz, Paczkowska Edyta, Machalinski Bogusław, Pawlik Andrzej
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a pleiotropic cytokine playing an important role as a modulator of immune responses, found to play a role in pathogenesis of numerous inflammatory-associated disorders. In the present study a potential association between 7 common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning the whole IL18 gene, gene expression and the release of IL-18 from the stimulated peripheral...
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