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Predictive Significance of Interleukins 17A and 33 in Risk of Relapsing–Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
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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.

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Publication Date
Mon Jan 01 2018
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Languages (jcl)
Zur Opposition restriktiv/nichtrestriktiv im Hocharabischen und im Deutschen
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This paper deals with the restrictive/nonrestrictive relative clauses in German and Arabic. I will, first of all, be concerned with some theories that have been provided to define the restrictive and the nonrestrictive relative clauses, particularly with the phonetic hypothesis. It will be, then, shown that the phonetic aspect is unable to give clear answers in this respect. The best way to determine restrictivity in both languages is, I think, by implementing of semantic indicators.

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Sat Dec 03 2011
Journal Name
مجلة حولية المنتدى
مفهوم التعايش السلمي ودوره في تحقيق الوحدة الوطنية
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ان التعايش السلمي والوحدة الوطنية تربطهما علاقة وثيقة تعبر عن حاجة اجتماعية في أطار تطور مجتمعي للدولة العراقية، فقد شهد العراق بعد العام 2003 تحديا جديدا تمثل في تغليب الانتماءات الفرعية والطائفية والعرقية والدينية والمذهبية على الانتماء الوطني مما يؤدي الى بلورة وترسيخ عوامل الانقسام وتفتيت لمقومات الوحدة الاندماج الوطني ، لذلك تعد دعامة التعايش السلمي في المجتمعات ضرورة لازمة من اجل الحفاظ على كينونة

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Publication Date
Thu Dec 27 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
جهود علماء مملكة غرناطة الاندلسية في الشعر التعليمي
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  نالت الحياة الادبية في مملكة غرناطة الاندلسية حظاً كبيراً 

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Publication Date
Fri Feb 08 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
حضور الخمرة في شعر مظفر النواب دراسة بلاغیة
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This research is a rhetorical study that sheds light on theme
prominent of central identified as custom poet of MUDAFAR AL NAWAB
political and national' that "wine "that themes which had a prominent
presence and intense in his poetry .and objective of this research is to detect
the aesthetic performance ALNAWABY in which he put to categorization
"wine" ,through observation of manifestation the presence of winey. And
related scream the images and the meaning of talking semantics base to
move in the spaces of the text and have built our study on three topics: we
started The first research with lexicon russet in the processes of counting
and analysis of the semantics wine in the office of the poet trying to reveal

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Publication Date
Sun Mar 26 2023
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
التعبير الاصطلاحي في آثار ابن المقفع- دراسة دلالية
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Each of the languages ​​possesses a set of phenomena that researchers in its sciences should stop at to explain the secrets of this language, including the phenomenon of idiomatic expression. Perhaps this phenomenon may constitute an obstacle to non-native speakers of the language or even the native speakers themselves. The Arabic language is full of these expressions, Which needs us to dedicate its own studies to it so that we can collect it in a dictionary that includes and collects it with explanation and interpretation of its semantics

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Publication Date
Tue Dec 11 2018
Journal Name
Arab Science Heritage Journal
الفتح الفتح العربي الاسلامي واثره في المجتمع الفارسي
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      The Islamic conquest for Persian country had the program of the civil and intelegical movement for the human

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Fri Feb 08 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
البُنى السَّردیة في شعر امرئ القیس دراسة تحلیلیة
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There is no doubt that the narrative form is a mixture of many elements that it
becomes so hard to differentiate between them. Thus, to differentiate between those
elements we must understand the job of every element; and that is the structure of narrative
form in the artistic frame of the old Arabic poem.
Poetry, as the readers confirm, is strongly related to a lot of arts. The rhetorical
form is related to the art of drawing and photography, the rhythm- the core of poetry- is
related to music, its structure to the art of architecture, its tension to drama as it consist of
internal conflict between its elements and ingredients, and the poetry has a narrative
element which relates it to the art of narration and it

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Publication Date
Mon Jul 01 2013
Journal Name
دراسات دولية
قراءة في المذهب العسكري الروسي بين الماضي والحاضر
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إن أهميـة بحثنـا تتضـح مـن خـلال التطـرق إلى دراسـة المـذهب العسـكري في حقبـة الاتحـاد السـوفيتي السـابق وإبـراز الجوانـب الرئيسـة المتعلقـة بفلسـفة المـذهب العسـكري السـوفيتي ومضـامينه الاستراتيجية مــن جانــب، وفلســفة المــذهب العســكري الروســي لمرحلــة مــا بعــد الحــرب البــاردة والتغـيرات المهمـة الـتي طـرأت عليـه، ممـا أفـرز لنـا بطبيعـة الحـال مضـامين مـذهب عسـكري روسـي جديــد قــد يتقــا

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Publication Date
Thu Jan 16 2014
Journal Name
د.زينب ميثم علي
فاعلية التناص في التشكيل النصي لأدب جمعة اللامي
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كشفت دراسات ما بعد البنيوية والتطور الحاصل في الدراسات النقدية عن مقدار التداخل بين النصوص في انتاج الظواهر الادبية ، وخير ما يكشف هذا التداخل هو المنهج الذي يركز على دراسة التناص ولاسيما في النصوص التي تتشكل على وفق التناص الواعي الذي الذي يتألف من مجموعة نصوص ادبية يتفاعل فيها نص الكاتب مع نصوص اخرى.

Publication Date
Thu Feb 07 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of The College Of Education For Women
الانفتاح الدلالي في الخطاب الشعري الحدیث (اللیل انموذجاً)
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This research deals with the idea of how the poetic reading can be a
rich field for producing the potential meanings in each text, through observing
the connection of the words and their link with other, thus composes, from the
collection of these interlaced meanings, what is called the poetic significant
(Symbolic) elaboration which deals with the reader of the text by regarding
him as a producer not as a consumer who can read a conscious reading, and
be diligent to solve the problem of the links of the relations among the
inspiring words because the language of poetry is an inspired language which
is capable of diversity and multiplicity of readings which is called the Symbolic
elaboration.

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