Background: Depressive disorder is often accompanied by physiological changes that may adversely affect the course of medical illness, including an increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines. Methods: We examine the effects of religious cognitive behavioral therapy (RCBT) vs. conventional CBT (CCBT) on pro-/anti-inflammatory indicators and stress hormones in 132 individuals with major depressive di...

MOG antibody disorder presenting as a combined central and peripheral demyelination (CCPD) is uncommon. CCPD has been associated with other primary syndromes such multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Here, the authors describe diagnosis management of 21-year-old female historically sequential plaques in her right thalamus, cervical cord,...

rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by joint swelling, synovial inflammation and joint destruction. curcumin (diferuolymethane) is the most active component of curcuma longa l. several clinical trials have indicated curcumin to be a notable anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compound. therefore the aim of this study is investigating the effects of curcumin ...

OBJECTIVE Previous reports suggest that cytokines act as potential mediators of the interaction between the immune and neuroendocrine systems, and that a proinflammatory state may be associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The aim is to compare cytokine levels in both disorders. METHOD Twenty euthymic bipolar disorder patients, 53 chronic stabilized schizophrenia patients and 80 h...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common gastrointestinal disorder involving the gut-brain axis, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic relapsing inflammatory disorder, are both increasing in incidence and prevalence in Asia. Both have significant overlap in terms of symptoms, pathophysiology, and treatment, suggesting the possibility of IBS and IBD being a single disease entity albeit...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic relapsing and remitting inflammatory disorder of the small intestine colon. IBD includes ulcerative colitis (UC) Crohn’s (CD), it main reason for expansion colon cancer, referred to as colitis-associated cancer (CAC). Oral colon-targeted microsphere based drug delivery system containing sulfasalazine was prepared, optimized characterized. The micros...

background: atherosclerosis is a multifactorial disorder with chronic inflammatory conditions in which immune cells play a significant role in its pathogenic process. regulatory t cells (treg), as a part of immune system, are involved in controlling autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. quantitative and/or functional alteration of tregs has been shown to play an atheroprotective role and may al...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired immune-mediated disorder of the peripheral nervous system. This clinically heterogeneous neurological closely related to Guillain–Barré syndrome and considered chronic counterpart that acute disease. Currently available treatments are mostly empirical; they include corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulins, plasma exchan...