M.Sc.

The effect of diabetes mellitus on pulmonary function has been scarcely investigated & assessed in Iraq. The current study is an attempt to assess some of the pulmonary mechanical function in a sample of type two diabetes mellitus in comparison with an equal number of non diabetic individuals in two teaching hospitals in Baghdad. It also attempts to assess these pulmonary functions among type 2 diabetic patients and identify the risk of some factors on pulmonary functions among diabetics and non diabetics.

Fifty patients (aborted women), Their range age between (16 − 46) years, were included in this study.
All patients sera were subjected to Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) to detect specific Toxoplasma gondii IgM and IgG , and assessment of lipid profile . In addition , trophoblastic tissues from the same patients were taken to confirm the infection of the T.gondii and to evaluate the expression of caspase 9 and caspase 3 using immunohistochemstry method. The patients were divided into two groups: