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SUBMITTER: Goldbach-Mansky R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3080043 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20091201
The role of the potent proinflammatory cytokine IL-1 in disease could clinically be investigated with the development of the IL-1 blocking agent anakinra (Kineret), a recombinant IL-1 receptor antagonist. It was first tested in patients with sepsis without much benefit but was later FDA approved for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. More recently IL-1 blocking therapies are used successfully to treat a new group of immune-mediated inflammatory conditions, autoinflammatory dise ...[more]