ArticleCytokine2008
Elevated serum levels of IL-1ra in children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria are associated with increased severity of disease.
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An MRI Ancillary Study of a Malaria Fever Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Elevated uric acid levels, mortality and cognitive impairment in children with severe malaria.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Cytoadhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Red Blood Cells Changes the Expression of Cytokine-, Histone- and Antiviral Protein-Encoding Genes in Brain Endothelial Cells.Molecular microbiology · 2024Article
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- Effects of anti-tau immunotherapy on reactive microgliosis, cerebral endotheliopathy, and cognitive function in an experimental model of cerebral malaria.Journal of neurochemistry · 2023Article
- Potential Benefits of Lycopene Consumption: Rationale for Using It as an Adjuvant Treatment for Malaria Patients and in Several Diseases.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Neurological Complications of Malaria.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022Review
- Sequential dysregulated plasma levels of angiopoietins (ANG-2 and ratios of ANG-2/ANG-1) are associated with malaria severity and mortality among hospital admitted cases in South Bastar Region of Chhattisgarh, Central India.Pathogens and global health · 2022Article
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- Altered Cytokine Response of Human Brain Endothelial Cells after Stimulation with Malaria Patient Plasma.Cells · 2021Article
- Genetic variation in the immune system and malaria susceptibility in infants: a nested case-control study in Nanoro, Burkina Faso.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- The Interface Between Inflammatory Mediators and MicroRNAs inFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
- CD14Parasitology · 2020Article
- Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates from patients with uncomplicated and severe malaria based on msp-1 and msp-2 genes in Gublak, North West Ethiopia.Malaria journal · 2019Article
- Whole-Blood Transcriptional Signatures Composed of Erythropoietic and NRF2-Regulated Genes Differ Between Cerebral Malaria and Severe Malarial Anemia.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
Animal models suggest that cytokines and chemokines play a role in cerebral malaria (CM) pathogenesis, but levels of a number of cytokines and chemokines thought to be important in the pathogenesis of other infectious diseases are not well characterized in children with CM. Serum levels of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), interleukin-8 (IL-8) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) were measured in 77 children with CM, 70 children with uncomplicated malaria (UM) and 63 healthy community children (CC) in Uganda. Children with CM had elevated serum levels of IL-1ra and IL-8 as compared to children with UM (median levels in pg/ml, 11,891 vs. 6510, P=0.05, and 63 vs. 41, P=0.01, respectively). Children with CM who died (n=4) had higher serum levels than survivors of IL-1ra (median levels in pg/ml, 65,757 vs. 10,355, P=0.02), G-CSF (709 vs. 117, P=0.02), and MCP-1 (1275 vs. 216, P=0.03) but not IL-8 (76 vs. 62, P=NS). Elevated IL-1ra levels are associated with increased disease severity in children with malaria, and very elevated levels of IL-1ra, G-CSF and MCP-1 are seen in children who die of CM.
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