PReS13-SPK-1586: Biological agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases: present and future targets of biologic therapy
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PReS13-SPK-1586: Biological agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases: present and future targets of biologic therapy
The last decade has seen the advent of a variety of novel biologic agents, which are now used widely across a range of the inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Normally introduced after the trial and failure of conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) the biologic class of medicines has been a revolutionary in terms of the scope and depth of response now sought in treating rheum...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Rheumatology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1546-0096
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-11-s2-i26