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Cytokine polymorphisms influence treatment outcomes in SLE patients treated with antimalarial drugs.
Arthritis research & therapy - 1 Jan 2006
López Patricia, Gómez Jesús, Mozo Lourdes, Gutiérrez Carmen, Suárez Ana
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Antimalarial agents have been widely used as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other rheumatological diseases, although their mechanism of action has not yet been fully defined. It is known, however, that effective response to treatment is variable among patients. Thus, the identification of genetic predictors of treatment response would provide...
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