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Association of TLR and TREM-1 gene polymorphisms with risk of coronary artery disease in a Russian population.
Gene - 15 Oct 2014
Golovkin Alexey S, Ponasenko Anastasia V, Khutornaya Maria V, Kutikhin Anton G, Salakhov Ramil R, Yuzhalin Arseniy E, Zhidkova Irina I, Barbarash Olga L, Barbarash Leonid S
Abstract excerpt
Atherosclerosis, manifesting itself as acute coronary syndrome, stroke, and peripheral arterial diseases, is a chronic progressive inflammatory disease which is driven by responses of both innate and adaptive immunity. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-1 (TREM-1) are important effectors of the innate immune system, and polymorphisms within genes encoding them may...
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