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Gene polymorphisms of tumor necrosis factor alpha and antioxidant enzymes in bronchial asthma.
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University - 1 Jan 2000
Despotovic Milena, Stoimenov Tatjana J, Stankovic Ivana, Pavlovic Dusica, Sokolovic Dusan, Cvetkovic Tatjana, Kocic Gordana, Basic Jelena, Veljkovic Andrej, Djordjevic Branka
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BACKGROUND: Bronchial asthma is an inflammatory disease resulting from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the regulatory regions of cytokine and antioxidant enzyme genes may affect cytokine production and enzyme activity, and thus play a contributory role in asthma pathogenesis. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the association of manganese...
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