IL-6 2174 C/C genotype is not conclusively a low IL-6 production phenotype

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 203, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1876-1878

  Nokso Koivisto, Johanna ^a   Patel, Janak A ^a   Chonmaitree, Tasnee ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETTER; NOSE SECRETION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; THROMBOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMMON COLD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE; RHINOVIRUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMMON COLD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RHINOVIRUS;

EID: 79957462860     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir181     Document Type: Letter

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