TY - BOOK AU - Maha Khalil Ibrahim Sayed AU - Doaa Abbas Eid , AU - Manal Mohamed Kamal , AU - Seham Ali Mohammed Metawi , TI - Serum and synovial fluid level of interleukin -17 in correlation with disease activity in patients with rhermatoid arthritis / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Maha Khalil Ibrahim Sayed , KW - Cytokines KW - Rhermatoid arthritis KW - Serum and synovial interleukin-17 N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -