ANXIETY AND RELATED DISORDERS  

Glomerulonephritis is a major cause of chronic kidney disease worldwide and presents with various histological and clinical manifestations in terms of severity and duration, resulting in diverse clinical outcomes. Immune-mediated injury of the resident glomerular cells plays a critical role in many forms of glomerular injury and mounting evidence indicates that both humoral and cell-mediated mechanisms are involved. Differentiated Th1 and Th2 subclasses are functionally distinguished by their specific profiles of cytokine production and their ability to induce different types of effector responses. Th1 cells produce interferon (IFN)-γ, interleukin (IL)-2 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α....