TY - BOOK AU - Taghreed Youssef Abdelrazek AU - Mahmoud Mohammad Kandeel , AU - Olfat Gameel Shaker , AU - Weaam Ahmad Rashwan , TI - Level of interleukin-17 in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) from patients with chronic periodontitis / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Taghreed Youssef Abdelrazek , KW - Cytokine KW - Gingival crevicular fluid KW - Periodontitis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Oral Diagnosis and radiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Background: Chronic periodontitis is the most frequently occurring form of periodontitis resulting in inflammation within the teeth supporting tissues, progressive attachment loss and bone loss Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a T-cell derived cytokine that may play an important role in the initiation or maintenance of the pro-inflammatory response and has recently been found to stimulate osteoclastic resorption. Aim of the study: The purpose of the present study was to determine the level of IL-17 in samples of Gingival Crevicular Fluid (GCF) from chronic periodontitis patients and to compare it with healthy individuals UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -