Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic, immune-mediated disease characterized by the destruction of insulin-producing β cells in pancreas. This study investigated influence single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) –308 G/A (rs1800629,) on T1DM patients. Method: The was included 75 patients and 25 healthy subjects. SNP–308 TNF-α gene detected using po...

background: rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease common in all races and ethnics. cytokines and cytokines receptors play an important role in ra pathogenesis and clinical presentation. objective: to investigate the serum levels of tnf-α, tnf-α ri, tnf-α rii and il-12 in ra patients and healthy control group. methods: in this study 43 patients fulfilling the revi...

background: correlations between bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver, skin and lung transplant rejection or survival with human cytokine gene polymorphisms have been described. there are also reports about the role of cytokines and tumor necrosis factors-alpha (tnf-α) on corneal transplant in animal models. further studies are needed to clarify the role of cytokines in corneal allograft rejection...

background and aims. the aim of this study was to evaluate the possible effects of obesity on the local (salivary) and systemic tnf-α and il-6 levels in patients with chronic periodontitis (cp). materials and methods. this study included 88 subjects assigned to four groups of 22 subjects each, as follows: group o+p+ (patients with obesity and cp), group o-p+ (patients with normal weight and cp)...

Monocyte/macrophage recruitment correlates strongly with the progression of diabetic nephropathy. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is produced by monocytes/macrophages but the direct role of TNF-α and/or macrophage-derived TNF-α in the progression of diabetic nephropathy remains unclear. Here we tested whether inhibition of TNF-α confers kidney protection in diabetic nephropathy via a macrophage...

This study was aimed to monitor water pullution of Uzuncayir Dam Lake using the changes of IL-6, IL1β and TNF-α levels in Capoeta umbla (Heckel, 1843) liver tissue at ten stations in March and September 2011. In this study C. umbla (Heckel, 1843) was used as the indicator organism. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interlekuin1β (IL-1β) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels were determined in samples ...

conclusions special high-risk groups, including patients with ltbi, should be treated before receiving tnf-α inhibitors. the tuberculin skin test (tst) is a somewhat cost-effective test for the diagnosis of ltbi. however, its usefulness with respect to false results should be re-evaluated in this situation. results there were somewhat different approaches proposed by various researchers regardi...

Introduction:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of fasting in Ramadan on visfatin, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and adiponectin level in human. Methods:Thirty four men aged 24 to 55 years old were selected from those people who were willing to fast in Ramadan. The blood sample was obtained from each participant in fasting state at the beginning and the end of study to d...

Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) has been suggested to be a putative tumor promoter gene, and autocrine of TNF-α expression has been found in colon cancer and ovarian cancer. As the role of autocrine TNF-α in human gallbladder cancer has not yet been elucidated, the present study examined the expression of TNF-α in gallbladder cancer-derived cell lines. Based on the data, TNF-α mRNA and TNF-α pr...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most common cancer death reasons. Anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) antibodies have shown promising effects in PDAC pre-clinical models. However, the prognostic values of TNF-α, underlying mechanisms by which anti-TNF-α treatments inhibit PDAC, and potential synergistic effects of anti-TNF-α treatments with chemotherapy are...