Cytokines as regulators of activity of inflammation play significant role in mechanisms of formation of atherosclerotic plaques and in processes of their destabilization. One of leading genetic factors determining level of their production appears to be polymorphism of cytokine genes structure at their promoter loci. We have conducted an analysis of distribution in groups of healthy male and female survivors of myocardial infarction (MI) of combined genetic signs represented as a complex of genotypes of a number of studied cytokine genes : TNF-A863C; TNF-A308G; TNF-A238G; IL1B-C511T; IL1B-C-31T; IL4-C590T; IL6-C174G; IL10A-1082G IL10-A592C. Among these homozygous combinations of cytokine genotypes characterizing a group of men who have lived up to middle and old age without development of MI there are widely represented genotypes associated with high levels of production of both cytokines with pronounced proinflammatory (IL-1) and antiinflammatory (IL-4, IL-10) activity. Absence of such multidirectional combinations in genome of patients with myocardial infarction can be considered one of genetic factors of risk of development of acute distirbances of coronary circulation.
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. (N.P.A., A.C.S., M.W.S., M.J.M., T.H., S.A.M.).
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