[Interleukin (IL)-18, a proinflammatory cytokine, induces T-helper 1 differentiation and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte functions, both of which have been proposed in the pathogenesis of oral lichen planus (OLP) - an oral disease resembles oral mucosal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) both clinically and histologically.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE