Cytokines are signaling molecules between inflammatory cells that play a significant role in the pathogenesis of a disease. Among these cytokines are interleukins (ILs) 17A and 33, and accordingly, the current case-control study sought to investigate the role of each of the two cytokines in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Sixty-eight relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) Iraqi patients and twenty healthy individuals (control group) were enrolled. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were used to determine serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33. Results revealed that IL-17A and IL-33 levels were significantly higher in MS patients than in controls (14.1 ± 4.5 vs. 7.5 ± 3.8 pg/mL; p < 0.001 and 65.3 ± 16.3 vs. 49.3 ± 20.0 pg/mL; p < 0.001, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis demonstrated that IL-17A was a very good predictor of MS (area under curve [AUC] = 0.869; 95% CI = 0.779 - 0.960; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 10.2 pg/mL; sensitivity = 80.8%; specificity = 75.0%). A similar prediction was presented by IL-33, but the AUC value was lower (AUC = 0.762; 95% CI = 0.63 - 0.89; p < 0.001; cut-off value = 56.4 pg/mL; sensitivity = 70.6%; specificity = 70.0%). Multinomial logistic regression analysis confirmed the significance of IL-17A and IL-33 in MS risk, and under three models of analysis, the estimated odds ratios for IL-17A (1.50, 1.49 and 1.50, respectively) and IL-33 (1.05, 1.05 and 1.06) were above 1.0. Patients stratified by gender (male and female), expanded disability status scale (EDSS: < 3 and ≥ 3) or medication (pre- and post-medication) showed no significant differences in serum levels of IL-17A and IL-33 for each stratum. However, with regard to response to medication, it was found that responding patients showed significantly higher levels of IL-33 than non-responders (70.9 ± 12.2 vs. 57.2 ± 18.2 pg/mL; p = 0.018). This difference was not observed when considering IL-17A. Pearson correlation analysis between IL-17A and IL-33 revealed that both cytokines were not significantly correlated. In conclusion, the study indicated that IL-17A and IL-33 were up-regulated in serum of MS patients, and this up-regulation was not influenced by age, gender, EDSS or medication status, but the elevated level of IL-33 was more pronounced in patients who responded to medication.
The scientific abandonment of the most important places of education and science in the Happy Yemen, which Manfred them from the rest of the Islamic Alomassar such kind of places Education existence, has contributed to a variety of factors paved the way for the emergence and originated scientific migration in the (fifth century AH / atheist century AD), and was in the forefront divisions witnessed by the Zaidi sect to if divided into three teams are (Almpartyah and inventor and Husseiniya) Because of differences doctrinal debates Pima including a heated end the fighting of the conflict between the parties,
The success of any work requires the development of prior plans for the success of this work as well as providing the necessary sources of funds for the implementation of those plans, where the start of the research problem of delayed sending project proposals to the Ministry of Planning to do its job oversight in checking the technical and economic of those projects feasibility studies, has sought the researcher to the statement of need activating the role of the Ministry of planning in the study of projects before they are implemented and the trade-offs between important projects and projects the most important as they related to the usefulness of the community as well as the economic feasibility evaluation of them in terms of providin
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إن الدوافع النفسية تنفرد في تجسيد الأحاسيس والمشاعر في نتاج الشاعر , من خلال رؤيته لتلك الحالة , فتسهم في صورة المقارنة في التشبيه , فتبعث في المتلقي حالة التأمل والمقارنة بين الحالتين اللتين تجمع بين مكوناتهما صفة واحدة فتصل إلى حالة التلاحم , ويكون ذلك باعثا لرسم صورة التشبيه ال
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The research dealt with the study of animal drawings in the fresco, during the Umayyad period, especially in Qusayr Amra and Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi. Many imagesto different animals and birds were found and used in various subjects, most notably the hunting and predation scenes.
السياسة الداخلية لعراق ما بعد الانتخابات 2010 دراسة في الثوابت والمتغيرات
Considers births illegal for children (illegitimate) phenomenon of negative social phenomena in our society where it's dangerous and the superiority of gravity on other social phenomena Calanhrav, homelessness and other due to poor drainage energies and sexual dysfunction in the value system among its actors and is characterized by the absence of social conscience and a lack of morality and the weakness of the system human-reliance among others.
The morality is the obvious difference between humans and animals. Wade this to say social scientists, while human social animal they said no that he has morals and values do not exist in other organisms so well that births
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Sotileza , localismo santandrino de sutileza , es la parte más fina del aparejo de pescar donde va el anzuelo. Es la obra maestro de José María de Pereda.Su ambiente , el Santander viejo, anterior al año 50,evocado emocionadamente - emociόn romántica contenida en los trazos sobrios y firmes de un naturalism psicolόgico y paisajista,el Santander que el autor confiesa poseer en el fondo de su corazόn,«y tenerlo esculpido en la memoria de tal suerte que ,a ojos cerrados,me atrevería a trazarle con todo su perímetro y sus calles, y el color de sus piedras, y el número, y los nombres, y hasta las caras de sus habitantes».Dentro de la grandeza primaria de las criaturas de Pere
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The historian, Professor Dr. Abdullah Al-Fayyad, left a huge legacy of knowledge product that scholars and stakeholders benefited from in the field of Islamic historical and modern studies,