Assessment of gender differences in some inflammatory cytokines of tuberculosis patients before and during treatment.

Background: Gender variation is a feature of many physiological parameters including inflammatory cytokines. Inflammation is an obvious feature of Tuberculosis (TB) infection with changes in pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines.

Objective: To compare the levels of inflammatory cytokines between male and female TB patients before treatment, after 2-months and after 6-months anti-tuberculosis treatment.

Probing anharmonic phonons in WS van der Waals crystal by Raman spectroscopy and machine learning.

Understanding the optothermal physics of quantum materials will enable the efficient design of next-generation photonic and superconducting circuits. Anharmonic phonon dynamics is central to strongly interacting optothermal physics. This is because the pressure of a gas of anharmonic phonons is temperature dependent.

Comparison of the levels of some hemostatic and inflammatory markers between tuberculosis patients with and without malaria at pretreatment, intensive, and continuation phase treatment.

Background: Tuberculosis and malaria (TB/MP) co-infection generates severe pathology that affects the levels of cytokines and hemostatic parameters than either disease. Anti-TB treatment regimen involves phases of different drug cocktails that may additionally modulate the levels of inflammatory cytokines and hemostatic parameters. This study investigated the variations in the levels of hemostatic and inflammatory markers when compared between TB patients with and without malaria at pretreatment, intensive, and continuation phase treatment.