Article
IL-10 and TGF-β1 gene polymorphisms in Greek patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis.
Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal - 1 Sept 2022
Kounoupis V, Andreadis D, Georgaki M, Albanidou-Farmaki E, Daniilidis M, Markopoulos A, Karyotis N, Nikitakis N-G, Poulopoulos A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is one of the most frequent inflammatory disorders of the oral mucosa. Cytokines, which play an important role in RAS pathogenesis, participate directly or indirectly in normal, immunological and inflammatory processes and are secreted from cells belonging to innate and adaptive immunity as a consequence of microbial and antigenic stimuli. Gene polymorphisms in...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- Codon
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Greece
- Humans
- Interleukin-10
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Stomatitis, Aphthous
- Transforming Growth Factor beta1