Plasma visfatin, associated with a genetic polymorphism -1535C>T, is correlated with C-reactive protein in Chinese Han patients with traumatic brain injury.

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Visfatin is a newly identified pro-inflammatory adipokine and a genetic polymorphism -1535 C>T located in the visfatin gene promoter has been suggested to be associated with the regulation of visfatin expression in some inflammatory illness. However, there were some conflicting results regarding whether this variant is functional or not. This study aimed to examine the relations of the -1535 C>T single nucleotide...

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