Cytokine-based therapies for Crohn's disease - New paradigms

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2045-2048

  Cominelli, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 8344258233     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp048253     Document Type: Review

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