INTERLEUKIN-31 MIGHT FACILITATE DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY VIA CELL APOPTOSIS

Interleukin-31(IL-31) is a novel cytokine which tightly correlated with IL-6. Inflammatory cytokines were reported to promote dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or heart failure, however, the relevance of IL-31 and DCM remains unclear. The IL-31 gene polymorphism was genotyped by polymerase chain