© 2015 The Authors; Tabriz University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Prevalence of the MEFV gene mutations and their clinical correlati...

The T cell immunoglobulin- and mucin domain-containing molecules (Tim) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of immune diseases. In this study, we used quantitative real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction to examine the Tim 1 mRNA expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Henoch Schonlein purpura patients. The results showed that Tim1 mRNA expression was signifi...