Association between serum cytokine profiles and schistosomiasis-related hepatic fibrosis: infection by S. japonicum versus S. mansoni.
Bonnard P, Remoué F, Schacht AM, Pialoux G, Riveau G.
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2006, 193 : 748-750 (PMID : 16453272)
In the 1 August 2005 issue of the Journal, Coutinho et al. described, in patients infected by Schistosoma japonicum, a correlation between the levels of certain cytokines and the presence of hepatic fibrosis (HF) [1]: they found that the levels of both interleukin (IL)–1 and IL-6 were higher in patients with HF than in patients without HF, and they also reported that the presence of HF was negatively correlated with body-mass index...