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SUBMITTER: Goracy I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6780056 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gorący Iwona I Kaczmarczyk Mariusz M Ciechanowicz Andrzej A Lewandowska Klaudyna K Jakubiszyn Paweł P Bodnar Oksana O Kopijek Bartosz B Brodkiewicz Andrzej A Cyryłowski Lech L
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 20190902 9
<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Inflammation plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke (IS). Interleukin-1B and interleukin-1 receptor antagonists are key factors in inflammatory processes. Aims: The aims of our study were to evaluate the relationship between genetic variation in interleukin-1B (<i>IL1B</i>) rs1143627 and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (<i>IL</i><i>1</i><i>RN</i>) variable-number-tandem-repeats (VNTR), and overall IS and subtype prevalence rates. <i>Mat ...[more]