TY - BOOK AU - Heba Amr Mohamed Kamal Elkhashab AU - Hanaa Hamdy Ahmed , AU - Hesham Abdelmoaty Zaher , AU - Mohamed Medhat Elkomy , TI - Assessment of interleukin -17 and vitamin D serum levels in psoriatic patients / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heba Amr Mohamed Kamal Elkhashab , KW - Interleukin -17 KW - Psoriatis KW - Vitamin D N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Dermatology and Venerology; Issued also as CD N2 - Background :Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that is now considered a prototypic Th17 - mediated disease . The possible role played by vitamin D deficiency in its pathogenesis has been previously highlighted . A number of reports have verified the existence of an interplay betwee them however whether such a relation exists between both culprits in the context of psoriasis has not been verified yet ER -