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ArticleJournal of thyroid research2011

Clinical utility of serum interleukin-8 and interferon-alpha in thyroid diseases.

Toral P Kobawala, Girish H Patel, Dhara R Gajjar, Kamini N Patel, Premal B Thakor, Urvi B Parekh, Kirti M Patel, Shilin N Shukla, Pankaj M Shah

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Article in Journal of thyroid research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toral P KobawalaDivision of Molecular Endocrinology, The Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, NCH Compound, Asarwa, Ahmedabad 380 016, India.
Girish H Patel
Dhara R Gajjar
Kamini N Patel
Premal B Thakor
Urvi B Parekh
Kirti M Patel
Shilin N Shukla
Pankaj M Shah
Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serum interleukin-8 (IL-8) and interferon-alpha (IFN-α) levels have been estimated from a total of 88 individuals of which 19 were disease-free healthy individuals, and 69 were patients with thyroid diseases: goitre (N = 21), autoimmune diseases (N = 16), and carcinomas (N = 32). Both IL-8 and IFN-α were significantly higher in all the patients as compared to healthy individuals. Serum IL-8 levels showed significant positive correlation with disease stage in thyroid cancer patients. Higher serum IL-8 levels were associated with advanced disease stage while no significant correlation was observed between serum IFN-α levels and any of the clinicopathological parameters. IL-8 and IFN-α significantly correlated with each other in anaplastic carcinoma patients. Finally concluding, monitoring the serum IL-8 and IFN-α levels can help differentiate patients with thyroid diseases from healthy individuals, and IL-8 seems to have a role in the pathogenesis of thyroid diseases and may represent a target for innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

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PMCPMC3065012
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