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A common functional variant on the pro-inflammatory Interleukin-6 gene may modify the association between long-term PM(10) exposure and diabetes

BACKGROUND: Air pollutants have been linked to type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypothesized to act through inflammatory pathways and may induce interleukin-6 gene (IL6) in the airway epithelium. The cytokine interleukin-6 may impact on glucose homeostasis. Recent meta-analyses showed the common polymorphisms...

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Autores principales: Eze, Ikenna C., Imboden, Medea, Kumar, Ashish, Adam, Martin, von Eckardstein, Arnold, Stolz, Daiana, Gerbase, Margaret W., Künzli, Nino, Turk, Alexander, Schindler, Christian, Kronenberg, Florian, Probst-Hensch, Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26911440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0120-5

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