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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.2.09</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>The Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α G-308A) Genes and Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor
(MIF G173C) Polymorphism in the Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy(IMN) in Adults</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>K. Abdul Kareem</surname>
                        <given-names>Hazim</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Al-Qadisiya University/Iraq.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>505</fpage>
            <lpage>511</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/the-levels-of-tumor-necrosis-factor-alpha-tnf-%CE%B1-g-308a-genes-and-macrophage-migration-inhibitory-factormif-g173c-polymorphism-in-the-idiopathic-membranous-nephropathyimn-in-adults/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is one of serious complications of idiopathic
membranous nephropathy (IMN) and it was reported in about one third of patients. IMN is an
autoimmune disease in which autoantibodies target antigens at the level of the glomerular
basement membrane. Immunological responses may be possibly involved in the pathogenesis
of idiopathic membranous nephropatghy (IMN). Cytokines act as a potent immunomodulators.
The present study was conducted to evaluate the role of MIF G173C and TNF-á G308Agenes
gene polymorphism in the pathogenesis of IMN. We have investigated single nucleotide
polymorphisms of MIF G173C and TNF-á G308A genes in 94 subjects. Forty-six patient had IMNnephrotic
syndrome while 48 subjects were apparently healthy individuals used as a controls
,then the serum level of TNF-á and IL-13 was detected by ELISA technique. The frequencies
of MIF C-173C (13.04 vs 4.00%) genotypes and C allele (29.35vs 22.00%) were higher in IMN
patients than control group while TNF-á A308A (21.74 vs. 0) genotypes and A allele (38.88 vs
10%) were significantly higher in patient than control groups and associated with higher mean
serum concentration of TNF-á (668.33+27.60) versus (45.64+2.38) and IL-13 (36.70+0.55)
versus (2.72+0.22), in IMN patients than apparently healthy subjects. AA genotype with TNFá
-G308A allele polymorphism and CC genotype with MIF 173C allele are mainly expressed
among IMN patients and susceptibility with disease might be prospected.
		</p>
		</abstract>
		<kwd-group>
        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Tumor necrosis</kwd>
        <kwd>Idiopathic membranous</kwd>
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