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Gene profiling of Chikungunya virus arthritis in a mouse model reveals significant overlap with rheumatoid arthritis
25 Jul 2012
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes a chronic debilitating polyarthralgia/polyarthritis, for which current treatments are often inadequate. To assess whether new drugs being developed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) might find utility in the treatment of alphaviral arthritides, we sought to determine whether the inflammatory gene expression signature of CHIKV arthritis...
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