[Mononuclear cells from paired blood samples from fifteen patients with myasthenia gravis before and after thymectomy and immunosuppressive therapy were examined by in situ hybridization for acetylcholine receptor-induced mRNA expression of the T helper type 1 proinflammatory cytokines interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and TNF-beta, the T helper type 2 cytokines interleukin 4 (IL-4) and IL-10 and the immune response downregulating cytokine tumor growth factor beta (TGF-beta).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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