crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation that causes the loss of immune tolerance leading to bizarre inflammatory signals and disruption of mucosal barriers. environmental triggers and interaction of genetic determinants also play an indispensible role. in this case report, we present a pre-pubertal girl with intermittent and refra...

pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome that may be dangerous especially to the fetus. different cytokines have been found to be elevated in women with pre-eclampsia and may have possible roles in the development of this disorder. alleles of the interleukin-l-beta (il-lβ) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α) genes are associated with pr-eeclampsia in several studies in different popul...

conclusions according to our result, 1525g/a and 1595c/t were in strong linkage disequilibrium and the polymorphisms of the trail gene in the 3’ utr region were not associated with the outcome of hbv infection. results our data showed that genotypes 1525g/a and 1595c/t were in complete linkage disequilibrium and the genotype frequencies at the two positions were the same. no significant differe...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). As a result, the inhibition of TNF is an important therapeutic avenue in the treatment of these pathophysiologically diverse disease states. This section discusses TNF, its receptors, and its role in immunoregulation and inflammation, as well as the currently available anti-TNF-...

objective(s): acquisition of tnf-α resistance plays role in the onset and growth of malignant tumors. previous studies have demonstrated that mcf-7 cell line and its doxorubicin resistant variant mcf-7/adr are resistant against the cytotoxic effects of tnf-α. in this study, we investigated the role of akt activation in resistance of mcf-7 and mcf-7/adr against tnf-α cytotoxicity. materials and ...

cytokines play a part in pathogenesis of periodontitis via inflammation phenomenon. aggressive periodontitis (agp) is a multifactorial disease resulting in rapid tooth loss due to severe destruction of tooth supporting apparatus. recently, researchers have focused on genetic susceptibility of periodontitis through investigating the gene variations of cytokines and other components of immune res...