The impact of smoking on clinical features of Behcet's disease patients with glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms

ÖZER H. T. E., Gunesacar R., DİNKÇİ S., Ozbalkan Z., YILDIZ F., ERKEN E.

CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY, cilt.30, sa.3, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Dergi Adı: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Objective. Various cancer studies have suggested that polymorphism of GSTM1 may influence the ability to detoxify chemicals in. cigarette smoke. In the present study the effect of smoking on clinical features of Behcet's disease were investigated in patients having GST-M1 and/or -T1 null polymorphisms.