Article: Research on acute appendicitis reported by scientists at Tarbiat Modares University.

"Appendicitis is an inflammatory disorder that could be classified in several stages of severity and is diagnosed by a combination of clinical and laboratory findings. IL-6 is an inflammatory cytokine and, in appendicitis, could be used as an inflammatory marker or it could affect other inflammatory markers used as a diagnostic factor," scientists writing in the journal Labmedicine report (see also Acute Appendicitis).

"It has been reported IL-6-174G/C allele polymorphisms could affect cytokine production. ARMS-PCR method was used to characterize the -174G/C polymorphism in healthy controls and appendectomized patients with an appendicitis diagnosis. CRP, ESR, ...

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