Evaluation of IL-8 gene polymorphisms in patients with periodontitis in Hamedan, Iran

• Main Authors: Behzad Houshmand (Author), Mehrdad Hajilooi (Author), Alireza Rafiei (Author), Mohsen Bidgoli (Author), Sara Soheilifar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Many environmental and genetic factors are known as factors that increase the susceptibility to periodontitis. As IL-8 is a chemokine that mediate the inflammatory process in periodontal disease, we decided to evaluate the effect of its polymorphism on chronic and aggressive periodontiti...