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Impact of vascular endothelial growth factor single nucleotide polymorphism association on acute renal allograft rejection.
Nephron - 1 Jan 2015
Prakash Swayam, Agrawal Suraksha, Kumar Shashi, Prasad Narayan
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BACKGROUND: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a cytokine which plays an important role in the division, proliferation and migration of endothelial cells. In the kidney, VEGF expression is found in glomerular podocytes and in tubular epithelial cells, which may result in acute inflammatory reactions. METHODS: The role of VEGF gene polymorphisms (-2578 C/A, -2549 18 bp Ins/Del, -1154 G/A and +936 C/T)...
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