Sara Jafarian
Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Mofid Children's Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - The study of the serum levels of IL-10 and TGF-beta1 in children with eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders compared to children with gastroesophageal reflux disease and healthy controls
Background: Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGID) are a heterogeneous group of GI disorders, associated with an increase of the eosinophils in the gastrointestinal mucosal tissue. Regulatory T cells (Tregs), as a subset of T cells with proven prominent role in immunopathology and protection against allergic diseases, appear to play a role in EGID pathogenesis. In the present study, ser...