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Toll-like receptors-2 and -9 (TLR2 and TLR9) gene polymorphism in patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic foot.
Medicine - 1 Apr 2017
Wifi Mohamed-Naguib Abdalla, Assem Maha, Elsherif Rasha Hamed, El-Azab Hameda Abdel-Fattah, Saif Aasem
Abstract excerpt
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are innate immune receptors that mediate the inflammatory response in diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of TLR2 and TLR9 gene polymorphism in patients with type 2 DM (T2DM) and diabetic foot (DF).The study included 90 subjects divided into group I (30 patients with T2DM and DF), group II (30 patients with T2DM and no evidence of DF), and group...
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