JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY, cilt.19, sa.1, ss.50-56, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Hemodialysis; (HD) patients suffer from inflammation and accelerated atherosclerosis that accounts for a large number of premature deaths. The anti-inflammatory interleukin (IL)-10 gene is polymorphic and potential direct effects of 11,10 gene polymorphisms on the circulating serum levels of adhesion molecules, inflammation and atherosclerosis in HD patients still have to be elucidated.