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Implications of cytokine genes in allergic asthma.
Allergologia et immunopathologia - 1 Jan 2000
Padrón-Morales J, García-Solaesa V, Isidoro-García M, Hernández-Hernández L, García-Sánchez A, Hincapié-López G, Lorente-Toledano F, Dávila I, Sanz C
Abstract excerpt
Asthma is a complex disease involving numerous mediator molecules and effector cells, in combination with a range of environmental determining factors. Cytokines play a key role in the physiopathological mechanisms of asthma; the study of the structure, regulation and variations of the genes that encode for these molecules is therefore crucial. Cytokines have extremely diverse roles, and exert effects both as...
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