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Polymorphisms in genes of interleukin 12 and its receptors and their association with protection against severe malarial anaemia in children in western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Malarial anaemia is characterized by destruction of malaria infected red blood cells and suppression of erythropoiesis. Interleukin 12 (IL12) significantly boosts erythropoietic responses in murine models of malarial anaemia and decreased IL12 levels are associated with severe malarial a...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Lyna, Prather, Donald, Eng, Jodi Vanden, Crawford, Sara, Kariuki, Simon, ter Kuile, Feiko, Terlouw, Dianne, Nahlen, Bernard, Lal, Altaf A, Slutsker, Laurence, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, Shi, Ya Ping
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-87