Plasma interleukin-10:Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-β ratio is associated with TNF promoter variants and predicts malarial complications

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1570-1573

  May, Jürgen ^a,b   Lell, Bertrand ^a,d   Luty, Adrian J F ^a   Meyer, Christian G ^b,c   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d Laboratoire de Recherches   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALARIA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0033792067     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315857     Document Type: Article

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