IL-6-174G/C promoter polymorphism in acute appendicitis

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 600-603

  Daneshmandi, Saeed ^a   Ghasemi, Abbas ^b   Pourfathollah, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Social Security Organization   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GENOMIC DNA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RISK; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 77951956486     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/LMEEW0HTWNA6HE1S     Document Type: Article

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