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Circulating Interleukin-23 Levels in Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Relationship to Disease Activity: a Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
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Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and systemic autoimmune disease that is characterized by severe synovial inflammation, cartilage erosion, bone loss, and generalized vasculopathy. Although the immunologic mechanism of RA is still unclear, it is now thought to be a primarily Th17-driven disease. Along with other factors, IL-23 stimulates the expansion of Th17 cells from naive CD4+ T cells.

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the circulating levels of interleukin (IL)-23 in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and determine the correlation between plasma/serum IL-23 levels and disease activity. So, we performed a systematic review with meta-analysis comparing plasma/serum IL-23 levels between patients with RA and controls and examined correlation coefficients between circulating IL-23 levels and disease activity

Subjects and Methods: Using the following keywords: lenterleukin-23, IL-23, and rheumatoid arthritis, a comprehensive literature search was carried out in the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses standards were followed, and the review was registered in the PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews with registration number CRD42022345901. Results were reported as standardized mean differences (SMDs) with a 95% confidence interval. All statistical analysis was performed using StatsDirect statistical software version 3.0.0 (StatsDirect Ltd., Cheshire, UK). A sensitivity analysis was conducted using the leave-one-out approach to test the robustness of the results.

Results: The total sample size for the RA group included in our review was 408 cases, while the control group sample size was 244 cases. The serum IL-23 level in the RA group was significantly higher than the control group (pooled SMD = 3.5, 95% CI; 2.1: 4.8, P < 0.0001) as compared to the control group. There were 8 studies with a total sample size of 402 that reported the correlation between IL-23 and DAS28-based RA activity. According to our findings, a significantly positive correlation between IL-23 and DAS28-based RA activity was found, with a weighted mean correlation of 0.57 (95% CI; 0.4: 0.75, P < 0.0001).

Conclusion: Our meta-analysis has shown that IL-23 circulatory levels are higher in RA patients and that there is a significant positive correlation between IL-23 and disease activity. Our findings emphasize the role that IL-23 may have in RA. More studies may be required to fully comprehend the involvement of IL-23 in RA.

 

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Sat Jan 01 2022
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Journal Of Engineering
A Five Variable Refined Plate Theory For Thermal Buckling Analysis Uniform And Nonuniform Of Cross-Ply Laminated Plates
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This research is devoted to investigating the thermal buckling analysis behaviour of laminated composite plates subjected to uniform and non-uniform temperature fields by applying an analytical model based on a refined plate theory (RPT) with five unknown independent variables. The theory accounts for the parabolic distribution of the transverse shear strains through the plate thickness and satisfies the zero-traction boundary condition on the surface without using shear correction factors; hence a shear correction factor is not required. The governing differential equations and associated boundary conditions are derived by using the virtual work principle and solved via Navier-type analytical procedure to obtain critica

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Sat Feb 21 2026
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Al.qadisiya Journal For The Sciences Of Physical Education
The Influence of Using Special Exercises with Weights to Develop Moments of Force to Some of the Striking Shoulder and Arm Muscles and Accuracy of the Skill of the Smash and Rectum in Volleyball
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This research is an attempt to develop exercise with weights to strengthen some of the striking muscles in the shoulder and arm and to develop the accuracy of the smash and rectum skills. The importance of this paper lies in the study of moments of force to achieve the ability to control muscular work and to explore the impact of physical and skill exercises with weights to develop moments of force for some muscles. The experimental method on a sample of players, selected according to the intentional method, including ( 9) advanced players representing Air Force Club participating in the Premier League for season 2011-2012. It is concluded that the exercises proposed have their effective impact on developing the variables of moments force f

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Mon Jan 01 2024
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Synthesis and Characterization of Some Metal Ions Complexes with Mixed Ligand of Azo Dye and Metformin and Evaluation of its Effectiveness on the Growth of Some Pathogenic Bacteria Clinically Isolated and Study of its Toxicity on Normal and Cancerous Hepatocytes
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Synthesis and characterization of some Metal ions complexes with mixed ligand of azo dye and Metformin and evaluation of its effectiveness on the growth of some pathogenic bacteria clinically isolated and study of its Toxicity on normal and cancerous Hepatocytes
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Synthesis and characterization of some Metal ions complexes with mixed ligand of azo dye and Metformin and evaluation of its effectiveness on the growth of some pathogenic bacteria clinically isolated and study of its Toxicity on normal and cancerous Hepatocytes
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Four metal compounds mixed ligand of azo dye ligand (L) and metformin.(Met) were produced at aquatic ethanol for (1:1:1) (M:L:Met). The prepared compounds were identified by utilizing atomic absorption flame, FT.IR and UV–Vis spectrum manners as well as conductivity mensuration. These compounds was assayed of the gained datum the octahedral geometry was proposed into whole prepared complexes.Also in this research was studied represented examining the antibacterial and antifungal impact of the azo dye ligand (L), metformin.(Met) and (Co,Ni, Cu and Cd complexes) on four types of pathogenic, clinically isolated bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic, like Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneu

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Thu Nov 01 2012
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Journal Of Cosmetics, Dermatological Sciences And Applications
Lifa disease: frictional dermal melanosis over bony prominences (clinicopathological study)
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KE Sharquie, MA Al-Dhalimi, AA Noaimi, HA Al-Sultany, Journal of Cosmetics, Dermatological Sciences and Applications, 2012 - Cited by 2

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Sat May 01 2021
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Journal Of Physics: Conference Series
The Prediction of COVID 19 Disease Using Feature Selection Techniques
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Abstract<p>COVID 19 has spread rapidly around the world due to the lack of a suitable vaccine; therefore the early prediction of those infected with this virus is extremely important attempting to control it by quarantining the infected people and giving them possible medical attention to limit its spread. This work suggests a model for predicting the COVID 19 virus using feature selection techniques. The proposed model consists of three stages which include the preprocessing stage, the features selection stage, and the classification stage. This work uses a data set consists of 8571 records, with forty features for patients from different countries. Two feature selection techniques are used in </p> ... Show More
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Wed Jan 09 2002
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Journal Of Pharmaceutical Negative Results¦ Volume
Antibacterial Improvement of Disease-Protective Face Masks Using Gold Nanoparticles
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In this work, the antibacterial effectiveness of face masks made from polypropylene, against Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenic was improved by soaking in gold nanoparticles suspension prepared by a one-step precipitation method. The fabricated nanoparticles at different concentrations were characterized by UV-visible absorption and showed a broad surface Plasmon band at around 520 nm. The FE-SEM images showed the polypropylene fibres highly attached with the spherical AuNPs of diameters around 25 nm over the surfaces of the soaked fibres. The Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of pure and treated face masks in AuNPs conform to the characteristics bands for the polypropylene bands. There are some differences

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Sun Jul 01 2018
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Bulletin Of The Iraq Natural History Museum (p-issn: 1017-8678 , E-issn: 2311-9799)
ESTIMATION OF GENETIC VARIATIONS IN DIFFERENT TAXA IN BRASSICACEAE BY RAPD AND ISSR ANALYSIS
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Twelve species from Brassicaceae family were studied using two different molecular techniques: RAPD and ISSR; both of these techniques were used to detect some molecular markers associated with the genotype identification. RAPD results, from using five random primers, revealed 241 amplified fragments, 62 of them were polymorphic (26%).

 

    ISSR results showed that out of seven primers, three (ISSR3, UBC807, UBC811) could not amplify the genomic DNA; other primers revealed 183 amplified fragments, 36 of them were polymorphic (20%). The similarity evidence and dendrogram for the genetic distances of the incorporation between the two techniques showed that the highest similarity was 0.897 between the va

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Sun Nov 01 2015
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Iosr Journal Of Dental And Medical Sciences (iosr-jdms)
A Comparative Study of a Topical Active Lotion Containing Triethyl Citrate and Ethyl Linoleate and Clindamycin Solution 1% in the Treatment of Mild to Moderate Acne Vulgaris
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DAIRMD Professor Hayder R. Al-Hamamy, **Professor Adil A. Noaimi, **Dr. Ihsan A. Al-Turfy, IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS), 2015

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