Enumeration of CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells in Type-II diabetes retinopathy
Journal Title: Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 27, Issue 5
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a health concern because it leads to complications such as retinopathy. Pakistan has 6.9 million DM affected people that will be doubled by 2025. A study was designed to enumerate CD4+CD25+Treg cells in Pakistani type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. It was a cross-sectional case-control study that included 212 subjects. The subjects having diabetic retinopathy were labeled as Group-I (30 healthy volunteers without diabetes), Group-II (30 T2DM patients without retinopathy) and Group-III (152 T2DM patients with retinopathy). The percentage of CD4+CD25+ Treg cells was determined by Flowcytometry. Comparison of CD4+CD25+T cells among different groups was not significant and higher percentage of Treg cells was observed in Group-II (3.07%) compared to Group-III (2.88%). Age, gender and duration of diabetes may contribute while percentage of CD4+CD25+T cells and Treg cells were not associated with the development of DR in T2DM.
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Nadeem Afzal , Khursheed Javaid , Shakeela Zaman , Abu Zafar , Abdul H Nagi
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