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.
تنشر الدولة الفرنسية قواتها العسكرية في جميع دول القارة الافريقية بهدف السيطرة عليها وتحقيق مصالحها الشخصية
This research shows Ibn Battuta's approach in his book Ibn Battuta's Journey that is called "Tuhfet Al-Anzar fi Ghera'ib Al-Amsar wa Eaja'ib-Al-Asfar", which explore the urban aspects of shops, markets, palaces, houses, mosques, monasteries and other antiquities within its pages, whether in terms of the site or in terms of studying it and the plans that explained the basis for the art and architecture of these cities, the intellectual dimensions in their civilizational history are clarified
Books of plans are a type of writing in Islamic history , its a type of work whose authors have strived to serve as a comprehensive historical encyclopedia, and they focused most of their attention on highlighting the various aspects of the history of Egypt
If the syntactic structure is a reflection of what is in the mind of the creator of synergies
نالت الحياة الادبية في مملكة غرناطة الاندلسية حظاً كبيراً
Literary heritage and its employment in poetry has received the attention of poets, and they have employed it in their literary texts, as this employment is one of the oldest phenomena in Arabic literature, that the inspiration of this heritage in texts through the overlap of their texts with previous texts, and no poet neglected the importance of this employment. The ancient critics determined that the poet’s special culture is represented in the necessity of taking from the ancients, and this taking is the reference from which the poet draws his material and idea, as well as to clarify the meaning and its significance
توافدت إلى الساحة النقدية اللغوية والأدبية الحديثة مصطلحات من بيئات مختلفة، امتلك بعضها فضيلة المواءمة لمشارب متنوعة مما أهّله لإمامة العنوان في دراسات متعددة ،هذا ما كان من شأن( استراتيجية) ذلك المصطلح العسكري الرحّال إلى حقول العلوم الإنسانية ،فلقدرته التفاعلية استقبلته في حضرة البلاغة رفيقاً لمحسن بديعي تسلّط في التصوّر المنهجي بمفهوم الانسجام اللفظي، ذلك هو( المشاكلة) التي تعني ذكر الشيء بلفظ غيره لوق
... Show Moreأن الكتاب في مجال الاختبارات والقياس والإحصاء الرياضي والذي صيغ بطريقة مبسطة وعلى وفق الفعالية التي تم تناولها بالبحث والدراسة سواء أكانت الدراسة في الجانب البدني أو المهاري أو الوظيفي للعبة أو تبحث في المواصفات الجسمية من ناحيتي القياسات والأدلة الجسمية وكل بصورة منفردة ، أو بصورة دراسة مركبة من ناحية تناول القياسات الجسمية مع المتغيرات البدنية لفعالية ما على سبيل المثال وتناولهما في دراسة واحدة أو تناول
... Show Moreيعد موضوع إمارة الحج من الموضوعات المهمة في التاريخ الإسلامي، فهو يتعلق بأحد أركان الإسلام، ومسؤولية إقامة الحج وإمارته كبيرة، ومن الأسباب التي كانت وراء اختيار عنوان هذا البحث " إمارة الحج في عهد الخليفة أبي العباس السفاح"، أن الموضوع يقع ضمن دائرة اهتمامنا في متابعة إمارة الحج في الدولة العربية الإسلامية، لاسيما إننا بحثنا الموضوع ذاته في دراسات سابقة . وقد تناولنا إمارة الحج حتى نهاية الدولة الأموية