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Kidney Transplantation, Polymorphisms of IL-18, and Other Pro-Inflammatory Genes and Late Post-Transplant Outcome.
Transplantation proceedings - 1 Mar 2016
Piancatelli D, Maccarone D, Colanardi A, Sebastiani P, Clemente K, Iesari S, Di Pietro V, Lai Q, Famulari A, Pisani F
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BACKGROUND: Functional polymorphisms of molecules involved in immune-mediated mechanisms of allograft rejection could be predictive of increased risk for early and late post-transplant complications. In the past years, the challenge for long-term graft survival in kidney recipients is the implementation of personalized approaches. In this study, effects of interleukin (IL)-18-137G/C (rs187238), -607C/A...
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