The - 174 C/G locus affects in vitro/in vivo IL-6 production during aging

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 309-314

  Olivieri, Fabiola ^a   Bonafè, Massimiliano ^b   Cavallone, Luca ^a   Giovagnetti, Simona ^a   Marchegiani, Francesca ^a   Cardelli, Maurizio ^a   Mugianesi, Elena ^a   Giampieri, Claudia ^a   Moresi, Raffaella ^a   Stecconi, Rosalia ^a   Lisa, Rosamaria ^a   Franceschi, Claudio ^a,b  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cells; Aging; Interleukin 6; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX RATIO; SUPERNATANT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTIDINE; FEMALE; GUANINE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 18244387723     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(01)00197-8     Document Type: Article

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