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IL-18 is involved in vascular injury in end-stage renal disease patients

Tomasz Porażko, J Kuźniar, Mariusz Kusztal, Tomasz J. Kuźniar, W. Weyde, Magdalena Kuriata-Kordek, Marian Klinger

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 2008 · 47 citations · 44 references

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Abstract

The novel observations in the present study are the data indicating that the distinctive contribution of IL-18, but not IL-6, to the arteriosclerosis occurrence in CKD patients, is independent from CRP, fetuin A or other factors involved in the general inflammatory process.

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