Anti-TNF-Alpha Therapy and Systemic Vasculitis
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Anti-TNF-Alpha Therapy and Systemic Vasculitis
TNF-α is a pleiotropic cytokine, which plays a major role in the pathogenesis of numerous autoimmune and/or inflammatory systemic diseases. Systemic vasculitis constitutes a group of rare diseases, characterized by inflammation of the arterial or venous vessel wall, causing stenosis and thrombosis. Treatment of the different type of vasculitis mainly relies on steroids and immunosuppressive dru...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mediators of Inflammation
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0962-9351,1466-1861
DOI: 10.1155/2014/493593