Maha Khalil Ibrahim Sayed  <br/><br/>
Serum and synovial fluid level of interleukin -17 in correlation with disease activity in patients with rhermatoid arthritis           /  
 مستوى الانترلوكين -17 فى مصل والسائل السينوفى لمرضى الروماتويد المفصلى وعلاقته بنشاط المرض 
Maha Khalil Ibrahim Sayed ; Supervised Seham Ali Mohammed Metawi , Manal Mohamed Kamal , Doaa Abbas Eid 
 - Cairo :   Maha Khalil Ibrahim Sayed ,   2009 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 
<br/><br/> The aim of the present study was to measure serum and synovial levels of IL -17 in patients with RA ; assessment of disease activity and severity using modified ritchie articular index DAS - 28 scoring system and functional status assessment and correlation of serum and synovial levrels of IL -17 with RA disease activity parameters . we can conclude that serum and synovial IL -17 levels are elevated in patients with RA which parallels the degree of disease activity and can be used as a specific marker for more aggressive joint involvement and damage 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cytokines  Rhermatoid arthritis  Serum and synovial interleukin-17