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Association of Genetic Polymorphism in the Interleukin-8 Gene with Risk of Oral Cancer and Its Correlation with Pain.
Biochemical genetics - 1 Feb 2016
Singh Prithvi Kumar, Chandra Girish, Bogra Jaishri, Gupta Rajni, Kumar Vijay, Hussain Syed Rizwan, Jain Amita, Mahdi Abbas Ali, Ahmad Mohammad Kaleem
Abstract excerpt
Oral cancer is a multifactorial disease process and involves complex interactions between gene to gene and gene to environmental factors. Interleukin 8 (IL-8), a pro-inflammatory cytokine, having angiogenic activity with elevated expression in tumor cells, is reported to play an essential role in oral cancer development. This study was conducted with the aim to investigate the role of IL-8 (-A251T) gene...
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