Diabetic Patients and Age-Matched Healthy Controls

Copyright © 2014 Azam Roohi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Type 1 diabetes is recognized as an autoimmune inflammatory disease and low grade inflammation is also observed in type 2 diabetic patients. Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is a new player in inflammation.Th17 cells, as the main source of IL-17, require transforming growth facto