Open AccessSerum Interleukin-18 and Its Gene Haplotypes Profile as Predictors in Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy
Author(s) -
Ahmed Ibrahim Abd Elneam,
N. Mansour,
Nayel Zaki,
Mohamed Awad Taher
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
open access macedonian journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 1857-9655
DOI - 10.3889/oamjms.2016.074
Subject(s) - diabetic nephropathy , medicine , haplotype , allele , genotyping , nephropathy , diabetes mellitus , immunology , promoter , genotype , endocrinology , gene , genetics , gene expression , biology
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is known as an acute microvascular complexity as a subsequence progression in diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2. Many evidence pointed that the proinflammatory cytokine Interleukin (IL)-18 might be involved in the pathogenesis of DN.
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