Assist. Prof. Dr. Basma Qasim Hassan, a faculty member at the institute of genetic engineering and bio-technologies for postgraduate studies at the University of Baghdad has published recently a research paper entitled: (Study of the relationship between the gene expression of interleukin-17 & interleukin-23 and their levels in serum with asthma among Iraqi children) in the Indian journal of forensic and toxicology that is classified in Scopus (Q3), as part of a master’s thesis submitted by the student Zahraa Tahsin Abdul Karim.
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the gene expression and the serum concentration level (IL-17 and IL-23) in pediatric asthma. The researcher tried to extract (RNA) from blood samples of asthma patients and ostensibly healthy people. The concentration of IL-17 and IL-23 was estimated by ELISA, where the results were statistically significant (P≤0.01) when comparing the group of asthma patients with the control group. The findings showed that IL-17 concentration has increased with acute asthma more than the mild asthma and that IL-23 concentration has also increased in serum in the asthma patients’ group.
