›› 2014, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 491-493.

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Relationship between IL-33 and children autoimmune disease 

Reviewer: ZHANG Chunxia, CHEN Baiyu    

  1. (Department of Pediatric, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010059, China )
  • Received:2013-11-09 Online:2014-05-15 Published:2014-05-15

Abstract: Interleukin-33 is regarded as the orphan receptor ST2 that belongs to the cytokine family of Interleukin-1 in 2005. IL-33 is found to play a potentially pathogenic roles in the autoimmune disease, allergic disease, vascular disease, inflammatory disease and it might be a useful sera marker for the diagnosis and prognosis in related diseases. Here we make a review on the relationship between IL-33 and autoimmune disease in recent years