TY - BOOK AU - Abeer Abdelhalim Abdelhamid AU - Amr Ezz Eldin Sharaf , AU - Shereen Osama Mohamed Tawfik , AU - Somaya Mohamed Elgawhaey , TI - Assessment of CTACK in sera of psoriatic ptients undergoing PUVA or methotrexate therapy / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abeer Abdelhalim Abdelhamid , KW - CTACK KW - Methotrexate KW - PUVA N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Dermatology and Venerology; Issued also as CD N2 - Background : The cutaneous T cell attacting chemokine (CTACK / CCL27) is a pivotal chemokine in mediating lymphocyte migration into the skin through the binding to the chemokine receptor CCR10. The infiltration of skin by T cell appears to be crucial for the initiation and maintenance of inflammatory and autoimmune skin diseases such as psoriasis . The aim of this study was to investigate the role of CTACK in T cell homing in psoriasis . Which is a T cell mediated disease UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -