Serum and urinary cytokine levels of SLE patients
Serum and urinary cytokine levels of SLE patients
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DOI:
10.1691/ph.2012.1694
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发表时间:
2012-05-01
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Zeher, M.
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作者:
Brugos, B.;Vincze, Z.;Zeher, M.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, relapsing, polysystemic autoimmune disease with various clinical signs. The prognosis of SLE patients is influenced by neuropsychiatric and renal involvement. Lupus nephritis (LN) is present in 40-60% of patients. Classical laboratory parameters are not sensitive and specific in prediction renal flares, over the last few years there has been a growing interest in searching novel lupus biomarkers predicting future flares. Our goal was to detect serum and urinary level of cytokines in 36 patients with lupus nephritis (34 female and 2 male, mean age: 43.36 +/- 11.53 years), 23 patients with SLE without renal involvement (19 women and 4 men, mean age: 54 +/- 8.71) (both groups followed by the 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology, University of Debrecen) and 30 healthy controls (23 female and 7 male, mean age: 45.5 +/- 12.4). Serum IL-1 (interleukin), IL-2 (both p