TNF-α-308A allele, a possible severity risk factor of hemorrhagic manifestation in dengue fever patients

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 469-472

  Fernandez Mestre M T ^a   Gendzekhadze, K ^a   Rivas Vetencourt, P ^b   Layrisse, Zulay ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Dengue hemorrhagic fever; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE GENE; DENGUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CYTOKINES; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DENGUE VIRUS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-6; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

DENGUE VIRUS;

EID: 4744350225     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2004.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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