Interleukin-18 promoter polymorphisms in type 1 diabetes

Diabetes

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3347-3349

  Kretowski, Adam ^a,b   Mironczuk, Katarzyna ^a   Karpinska, Anna ^a   Bojaryn, Urszula ^a   Kinalski, Maciej ^a   Puchalski, Zbigniew ^b   Kinalska, Ida ^a  

^a Dept of Prod Ecol in Agriculture   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TH1 CELL;

EID: 0036829539     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.11.3347     Document Type: Article

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