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TI - Possible Role for Interleukin-5 in Asthma
AU - Wala'a E. Jasim
AU - Batool A. Al-Haidary
AU - Yacoob Y. Al-Rubaeyi
PY - 2006
VL - 48
IS - 4
SP - 425
EP - 430
JO - Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad مجلة كلية الطب
SN - 00419419 24108057
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Background: Asthma is an allergic disease characterized by airway obstruction as a result of cellular accumulation due to the liberation of certain mediators. Among those mediators are the cytokines such as IL-5.
Patients & Methods: Interleukin-5 concentration has been estimated in 94 sera samples of Asthmatic patients in comparison with 41 non-asthmatic bronchitis as patient controls in addition to 30 apparent healthy control group using ELISA method.
Results & Conclusions: There is highly significant elevation of IL-5 in the asthmatic cases in comparison with healthy controls (P< 0.001). We conclude that this cytokine may play the major role in asthmatic attack & it may be a good marker for the disease.
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