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Higher frequency of septic shock in septic patients with the 47C allele (rs4880) of the SOD2 gene.
Gene - 15 Mar 2013
Paludo Francis Jackson de Oliveira, Picanço Juliane Bentes, Fallavena Paulo Roberto Vargas, Fraga Lucas da Rosa, Graebin Pietra, Nóbrega Otávio de Toledo, Dias Fernando Suparregui, Alho Clarice Sampaio
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AIM: To analyze the effect of the two different versions of the manganese superoxide dismutase gene (SOD2) on sepsis. The SOD2 gene presents the 47C>T single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; ID: rs4880) which produces MnSOD with different activities. The -9Val MnSOD (47T allele) is less efficient than the -9Ala version (47C allele). During sepsis there are abundance of ROS, high SOD2 expression and excess of...
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