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Association of TLR5 gene polymorphisms in ulcerative colitis patients of north India and their role in cytokine homeostasis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Meena Naresh Kumar, Ahuja Vineet, Meena Kusumlata, Paul Jaishree
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIM: In health, TLR signaling protects the intestinal epithelial barrier and in disease, aberrant TLR signaling stimulates diverse inflammatory responses. Association of TLR polymorphisms is ethnicity dependent but how they impact the complex pathogenesis of IBD is not clearly defined. So we propose to study the status of polymorphisms in TLR family of genes and their effect on cytokines level in...
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