We aimed to investigate the relation between serum inflammatory markers, 25OHvit-D3 and oxidative stress markers, namely paraoxonase1-arylesterase (PON1-ARE), total antioxidant status (TAS) and total oxidant status (TOS) in 30 male patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction(STEMI) . There was negative correlation between tumor necrosis factor alpha and ARE; positive correlations between s...

dietary fatty acids play a critical role in modulation of airway inflammation in asthma. this study was conducted to compare dietary intakes of essential fatty acids and serum levels of inflammatory factors in asthmatic and healthy adults, and to examine the potential relationship between inflammatory markers and dietary fatty acids. in this case-control study, 47 asthmatic patients (26 males a...

BACKGROUND : Serum and sputum eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) levels are correlated with asthma disease severity. OBJECTIVE : To establish a diagnostic accuracy of ECP and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in serum (indirectly) and sputum (directly) as inflammatory markers in asthma. PATIENTS AND METHODS : In a cross sectional study, 76 asthmatic patients with exacerbation were enrolled in the ...

objective: vitamin d appears to be involved in regulation of glycemic and inflammatory responses in gestational diabetes. the purpose of this study was to compare the serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin d (25(oh)d), inflammatory biomarkers and glycemic profile between gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) and normal glucose tolerance (ngt) pregnant women. materials and methods: in this cross-sectio...

The diagnosis of tuberculosis remains challenging in individuals with difficulty in providing good quality sputum samples such as children. Host biosignatures of inflammatory markers may be valuable in such cases, especially if they are based on more easily obtainable samples such as saliva. To explore the potential of saliva as an alternative sample in tuberculosis diagnostic/biomarker investi...

objective:  to assess whether non-surgical periodontal treatment is associated with changes in serological markers of systemic inflammation. materials and methods: thirty-five systemically healthy subjects with severe generalized periodontitis meeting the inclusion criteria participated in a four-month single blind interventional trial of which thirty-two completed the study. periodontal parame...

The 4-ACGC isolated from BP was prepared to investigate the cardioprotective effects on attenuating chronic heart failure in vivo and in vitro. A chronic heart failure (CHF) rat model was established to investigate the cardioprotective effects of 4-ACGC. From this, several cardiac function indexes were recorded. The inflammatory markers including tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), Interleukin-6 (...

abstract introduction : conjugated linoleic acid (cla) has been shown to positively influence on calcium and bone metabolism in experimental animals and cell culture, but there are limited human data available. material and methods : this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial study was done on 76 healthy post-menopausal women (aged 55.1) which randomly assigned to receive daily four cla capsul...