Cytokines as villains and potential therapeutic targets in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy: From bench to bedside

Expert Review of Ophthalmology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 227-234

  Rajaii, Fatemeh ^a   McCoy, Allison N ^a   Smith, Terry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Graves' disease; Graves' orbitopathy; Inflammation; Interleukins; Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; BRODALUMAB; CYTOKINE; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 23 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 6; IXEKIZUMAB; METHOTREXATE; PLACEBO; RITUXIMAB; SECUKINUMAB; TEPROTUMUMAB; TOCILIZUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR; USTEKINUMAB;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FIBROBLAST; GRAVES DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAST CELL; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SKIN ABSCESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84901280800     PISSN: 17469899     EISSN: 17469902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17469899.2014.917960     Document Type: Review

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