A single infusion of infliximab increases the serum endostatin level in patients with rheumatoid arthritis [8]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-274

  Kucharz, E J ^a   Gozdzik, J ^a   Kopec, M ^a   Kotulska, A ^a   Lewicki, M ^a   Pieczyrak, R ^a   Widuchowska, M ^a   Zakliczynska, H ^a   Szarzynska Ruda, M ^a   Zycinska Debska, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENDOSTATIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COLLAGEN; ENDOSTATINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS;

EID: 0037367706     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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