Role of IL-1β, Prolactin and DHEA in men Patients Infected with Toxoplasmosis

Abstract

Toxoplasma gondii has a worldwide distribution and it is one of the most prevalent infectious agents in Iraq, as it is found in various mammals, fish, and terrestrial and water birds. Cats are the only definitive host for the parasite that throws the infective phase into the environment. The primary aim of this study was to determine the serum levels of IL-1β, prolactin, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in patients and healthy group.The study was conducted on 260 Males suspected of Toxoplasmosis ages ranging from 20-50 years old. All these cases were examined by measuring Toxo IgG serum levels, who attended AL-Hakeem hospital, and (30) healthy males as the control group, collected randomly from AL-Najaf province, these samples were collected from March 2023 to August 2023. Any patient was using the drug or undergoing disease removal from the current study. The current study revealed that the concentration of IL-1β inpatients infected with Toxoplasmosis were significant increase (P<0.05) compared to the control group, but the concentration of (prolactin) in patients infected with toxoplasmosis were significant decrease (P<0.05) is compared to the control group. Also, it revealed that the DHEA levels were elevated but non significantly in samples infected with Toxoplasmosis compared to the control group. The current study has concluded that infection with Toxoplasmosis may be a risk factor. A chronic T. gondii infection is associated with variations in levels of serum prolactin and these variations may influence the immune system by IL-1β increase the susceptibility to Toxoplasmosis infection.

Keywords

• najaf
• parasite
• t. gondii
• il-1β
• dhea