Emerging therapies for rheumatoid arthritis

Expert Opinion on Emerging Drugs

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-244

  Jacques, Peggy ^a   Van Den Bosch, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological therapy; Cytokines; Kinase inhibitors; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

AMG 714; APILIMOD; APREMILAST; AZATHIOPRINE; BARICITINIB; BELIMUMAB; BRODALUMAB; CANAKINUMAB; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ELDELUMAB; ETANERCEPT; FOSTAMATINIB; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; IXEKIZUMAB; MARAVIROC; METHOTREXATE; OCRELIZUMAB; OFATUMUMAB; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; RUXOLITINIB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SARILUMAB; SECUKINUMAB; SIRUKUMAB; TABALUMAB; TOFACITINIB; UNINDEXED DRUG; VX 702;

AUTHOR; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE EROSION; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84878591095     PISSN: 14728214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728214.2013.807339     Document Type: Review

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