Cxcl10 is widely considered an essential inflammatory mediator in various inflammation-associated diseases, such as ulcerative colitis (Mostafa & Abdel-Rahman, 2023), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, pulmonary tuberculosis (Ali, Mankhi & Ad’hiah, 2021), and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Zhang et al., 2014). The gene discussed is CXCL10; the disease is pulmonary tuberculosis.