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Fig. 2 | Journal of Ovarian Research

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From: COVID-19 and cytokine storm syndrome: can what we know about interleukin-6 in ovarian cancer be applied?

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Role of IL-6 in immunopathology associated to ovarian cancer and COVID-19. IL-6 is one of the key cytokines driving the immunopathology caused by prolonged aspecific inflammation. IL-6 induces the transcription of several liver-specific genes in acute inflammatory states, such as CRP, thrombopoietin, and hepcidin thus contributing to associated immunodepression, anemia and thrombocytosis (with related hypercoagulability)

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