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ArticleJournal of molecular neuroscience : MN2020

Assessment of IL-38 Levels in Patients with Acquired Immune-Mediated Polyneuropathies.

Zahra Pour Mohammad Ali, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Alireza Komaki, Mehrdokht Mazdeh, Mohammad Taheri, Mohammad Mahdi Eftekharian

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Article in Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zahra Pour Mohammad AliDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Soudeh Ghafouri-FardDepartment of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Alireza KomakiNeurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Mehrdokht MazdehDepartment of Neurology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Mohammad TaheriUrogenital Stem Cell Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. mohammad_823@yahoo.com.
Mohammad Mahdi EftekharianNeurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. Eftekharian@umsha.ac.ir.
Hamedan University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP and CIDP) are two types of immune-mediated neuropathies in which abnormal cellular or humoral immune responses have been observed. Although dysregulation of several cytokines has been detected in these disorders, expression of interleukin 38 (IL-38) has not yet been assessed in AIDP and CIDP. In the current study, we evaluated serum concentrations of this member of the IL-1 family of cytokines in 24 patients with CIDP, 13 patients with AIDP and 27 healthy subjects. We detected higher levels of IL-38 in CIDP patients compared with controls. When assessing study subgroups based on gender, there were no significant differences in IL-38 levels among the three female subgroups (P = 0.14). However, the difference among male subgroups was significant (P = 0.010). A Tukey test showed significant differences between male CIDP patients and male controls (P = 0.014). Considering the proposed anti-inflammatory role of IL-38, higher levels of this cytokine in CIDP might reflect the presence of a compensatory mechanism to reduce inflammatory processes in these patients. Further longitudinal assessment of this cytokine is need to test this hypothesis.

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Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous SystemFemaleHumansInterleukinsMalePolyneuropathiesIL-38 protein, humanInterleukinsAIDPCIDPIl-38Immune-mediated neuropathy

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