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...

objective(s) using herbal medicines as a complementary treatment method is increasing in wide variety of diseases. ms14-an herbal-marine preparation-is reported to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities; however, the mechanism underlying its therapeutic effect is not known. macrophages play an important role in host defense mechanisms and carry out their role by producing variou...

background and objectives: coronary artery disease (cad) is regarded as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. diabetes mellitus (dm) is associated with the development of cad and increased risk of morbidity and mortality. the goal of this study was to assess the association of tumor necrosis factorα (tnf-α) and high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hscrp) with cad severi...

Tumer et al. 2022, ATel #15171, have recently reported the discovery of an X-ray source, NuSTAR J053449+2126.0, during a calibration observation which took place on 25 April 2020. We scan Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alerts and archival photometry to determine nature source. Palomar Gattini-IR is searched as well. identify no obvious counterpart candidate. Follow-up optical studies are neede...