Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with h
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Norihiro Nishimoto; Kazuyuki Yoshizaki; Nobuyuki Miyasaka; Kazuhiko Yamamoto; Sh
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objective Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) is a pleiotropic cytokine that regulates the immune response, inflammation, and hematopoiesis. Overproduction of IL‐6 plays pathologic roles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and the blockade of IL‐6 may be therapeutically effective for the disease. This s