PURPOSE The aims of this study were to determine whether pretreatment plasma levels of cytokines and immune activation-associated molecules changed following treatment for AIDS-NHL with rituximab plus infusional EPOCH, and to determine whether pretreatment levels of these molecules were associated with response to treatment and/or survival. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We quantified plasma levels of B...

OBJECTIVE Insulin resistance is a major characteristic of type 2 diabetes and is causally associated with obesity. Inflammation plays an important role in obesity-associated insulin resistance, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Interleukin (IL)-10 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine with lower circulating levels in obese subjects, and acute treatment with IL-10 prevents lipid-induced i...

Hepatic steatosis is the accumulation of fat in liver cells. Insulin resistance (IR) occurs when normal amounts of insulin do not stimulate insulin activity in cells. Both conditions have been described in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and are thought to be biologically related. This study examined the association of genetic variants with steatosis and IR among 167 African Americans and 184...

IL-17+ CD4+ T (Th17) cells contribute to the pathogenesis of several human inflammatory diseases. Here we demonstrate that TNF inhibitor (TNFi) drugs induce the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 in CD4+ T cells including IL-17+ CD4+ T cells. TNFi-mediated induction of IL-10 in IL-17+ CD4+ T cells is Treg-/Foxp3-independent, requires IL-10 and is overcome by IL-1β. TNFi-exposed IL-17+ CD4+ T cell...

AIM Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammatory processes play a role in asthma etiology, and interleukin-10 (IL10) is an important immunosuppressive cytokine. The present study aimed to evaluate the contribution of IL10 promoter A-1082G (rs1800896), T-819C (rs3021097), A-592C (rs1800872) genetic polymorphisms to the risk of asthma in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS Associations of three I...

Recent findings suggest that genetic polymorphisms in TNF and IL10 are associated with an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), particularly for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). To further investigate the contribution of common genetic variation in key cytokine and innate immunity genes to the etiology of NHL, we genotyped participants in a case-control study of NHL conducted in A...

the study of cytokines gene expression is quite important in various conditions of health and disease for the evaluation of clinical responses to new vaccination approaches. an absolute quantification is based on a calibration curve and production of standard controls to achieve more reliable results than in relative system. in this study we attempted to construct standard controls to evaluate ...

The aim of research: To investigate the genetic polymorphism immune response molecules (TNFα-308G> A (rs1800629), IL4-589C>T (rs2243250), IL10-592C> (rs1800872), IL10-819C> T (rs1800871), IL10-1082G>A (rs1800896), IL-17A-197G> (rs2275913), IL- 17F-161His> Arg (rs763780), TLR-2-753Arg>Gln (rs5743708), TLR-6-249Ser>Pro (rs5743810) and assess their prognostic value in de...