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

ÖZER, HÜSEYİN; Gunesacar, R.; DİNKÇİ, SUZAN; Ozbalkan, Z.; YILDIZ, FİLİZ; ERKEN, EREN

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, Scopus)

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.