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Volume 21, Number 2, June 2010



research article

Persistence of full-length caspase-12 and its relation to malaria in West and Central African populations
Matthew BB McCall, Bart Ferwerda, Joost Hopman, Ivo Ploemen, Boubacar Maiga, Modibo Daou, Amagana Dolo, Cornelus C Hermsen, Ogobara K Doumbo, George Bedu-Addo, Jos W van der Meer, Marita Troye-Blomberg, André JAM van der Ven, Ralf R Schumann, Robert W Sauerwein, Frank P Mockenhaupt, Mihai G Netea

Increased Th1, Th17 and pro-fibrotic responses in hepatitis C-infected patients are down-regulated after 12 weeks of treatment with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin
Maria Angeles Jimenez-Sousa, Raquel Almansa, Concha de la Fuente, Agustín Caro-Paton, Lourdes Ruiz, Gloria Sanchez-Antolín, Jose Manuel Gonzalez, Rocio Aller, Noelia Alcaide, Pilar Largo, Salvador Resino, Raul Ortiz de Lejarazu, Jesus F Bermejo-Martin

Serum levels of VEGF and bFGF in hypoxic patients with exacerbated COPD
Gordana Pavlisa, Goran Pavlisa, Vesna Kusec, Slobodanka Ostojic Kolonic, Asja Stipic Markovic, Branimir Jaksic

Serum cytokine levels in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Francesca Capone, Susan Costantini, Eliana Guerriero, Rosa Calemma, Maria Napolitano, Stefania Scala, Francesco Izzo, Giuseppe Castello

Cytokine profiling of human peripheral blood CD4+ Tlymphocytes reveals a new Th-subpopulation (Th6) characterized by IL-6
Ursula Azizi-Semrad, Dagmar Krenbek, Günther Hofbauer, Georgios Karanikas, Eduardo Maldonado-Gonzalez, Peter Pietschmann, Martin Willheim

Association between sporadic Parkinson disease and interleukin-1β -511 gene polymorphisms in the Turkish population
Ahmet Arman, Nihal Isık, Ajda Coker, Fatma Candan, Kezban Serap Becit, Edward O List

Expression of IL-10 in human normal and cancerous ovarian tissues and cells
Alex Rabinovich, Liat Medina, Benjamin Piura, Mahmoud Huleihel

Serum interleukin-6 concentration predicts contrast-induced nephropathy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
Bartosz Hudzik, Janusz Szkodzinski, Aleksander Danikiewicz, Wojciech Romanowski, Andrzej Lekston, Lech Polonski, Barbara Zubelewicz-Szkodzinska

Functional interleukin-10 promoter variants in coronary artery disease patients in Tunisia
Sonia Ben-Hadj-Khalifa, Lakhdar Ghazouani, Nesrine Abboud, Ali Ben-Khalfallah, Fatma Annabi, Faouzi Addad, Wassim Y Almawi, Touhami Mahjoub