Interleukin-17 in sera from patients with acute myocardial infarction and chronic periodontitis

• Main Authors: N Ravindra Reddy (Author), D S Madhu Babu (Author), Vinay Chavan (Author), N Sarath (Author), C Venkat Subba Reddy (Author), A Kishore Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a cytokine that modulate the inflammatory process in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and chronic periodontitis (CP) and has not been assessed in patients with AMI and CP. The aim of this study was to investigate possible association between AMI and CP by estim...