Systemic cytokine measurements: their role in monitoring the response to therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. - Concepedia

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Systemic cytokine measurements: their role in monitoring the response to therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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1995

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Raashid Luqmani, Thomas Sheeran, Mary Robinson, K.C. Richardson, Jeffrey A. Winkles, Paul Emery

Abstract

The measurement of circulating cytokine levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is of limited benefit; macrophage function (as measured by urinary neopterins) is initially enhanced by DMARDs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.