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Bronchial AsthmaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
0\antioxidants arc two wards often reported not onlv in medical jouirnis but also in encra! newspapers nowaday s. Their role in pathogenesis 0?fiany hun-Km diseases including hronclnai ;istiini;t liad been searched b\ nian\tothors. Recent definition 0)’ asthma sn-c’-scd on asthma as an mflami-natorv bisease, dm-in^ li-ns iiinaiiin-ialion many of the oxidanis from mflammalorv ceilsre released. The bodv m an citTempt. (nYn vK’ianIs, ’T1ie mosi in-iporuinl liicli are en/yme ^ntioMcinnt-;giulatliione peroxidasc fCrSII-I^X) tlim ina decrease penpheraHy indica’iiit1 increased oxidant burden. However SLiperoxide dismuiase (”SOD) mav Eu-no affected The aiin of this work is to study’ blood antioxidants naineiy siijK’i’oxidc dismutasc and Ldutatiiione pcroxidase in patients with bronchial asthma and to assess their defensive modulating role m the pathoLicucsis ofastlima m childhood Also to spotfi’E-’ht on the corrchtion between tliere level and severity ofasihma.
EiFifty children were studied in this work. They were divided into ivo wiip\’: -
.Sthmatic ”roun: mcludinu 30 ciiildre!-i suffering from bronchial asthma.
grange from 8 - 15 years. 16 of them were males (’53,3 %) and 14 were males f4^).6 S) all were none smokers but 26 subjecl. ^6.6% w-’ere passive okers. Thev were free radiolom’eally.