Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Inflammatory mechanisms play an important role in the development of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines that orchestrate leukocyte trafficking in tissues, thus, playing an important role in regulation of immunological processes. Some studies have shown that CCR2 G190A polymorphism might be important for protection of susceptibility to some immunologically-mediated disorders. The aim of our study was to investigate the effec...