[Neuromalaria and cytokines]

Dakar Med. 1991;36(2):198-202.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Levels of TNF alpha, IL-6-, soluble R IL-2, and fibronectin, were evaluated in fifteen patients with cerebral malaria. Relations between cytokines levels and parasitemia were assessed. Concentration of IL-6, and soluble R IL-2, correlated with parasitic density on admission. It was appeared, that IL-6, would be a prognostic factor, as interesting as TNF alpha.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cytokines / blood*
  • Female
  • Fibronectins / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Interleukin-2 / metabolism
  • Interleukin-6 / metabolism
  • Malaria, Cerebral / blood*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / metabolism

Substances

  • Cytokines
  • Fibronectins
  • Interleukin-2
  • Interleukin-6
  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha