Abstract

EVALUATION OF PRO-INFLAMMATORY INTERLEUKINS (IL-1, TNF& AND IFN?) IN ISCHAEMIC DISEASES PATIENTS IN SOUTH OF IRAQ

Omran, S.S.? , Issa, A.H.? *, Salih, M.B.? and Issa, N.H.?

Abstract

Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) or called coronary heart disease (CHD), It is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of arteries that supply the myocardium. There is growing evidence for a pathogenic role of cytokines in atherogenesis, the presence of a certain cytokines have been documented in human atherosclerotic blood vessels. This study aimed to evaluate the presence of pro-inflammatory interleukins (IL-1, TNFα and IFNγ) in the serum of subjects whom submitted to this study . In this study we found great difference in means between subjects with ischaemia and subjects without ischaemia towards subjects with ischaemia for three interleukins, but statistically this difference did not reach to significancy.

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