Abstracts tagged "apoptosis and monocytes"

Abstract Number: 1379 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Differential Effects Of TNF Inhibitors, Anti-IL-6 Receptor Antibody and CTLA4-Ig On Human Monocytes
Toshihiro Tono¹, Yoshiyuki Arinuma², Tatsuo Nagai³, Sumiaki Tanaka² and Shunsei Hirohata², ¹Int Med/Rheumatol & Infec Dis, Kitasato University school of medicine, sagamihara, Japan, ²Int Med/Rheumatol & Infec Dis, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan, ³Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan
Background/Purpose: Biological agents inhibiting proinflammatory cytokines, especially IL-6 and TNFa, have brought a great impact in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition, CTLA4-Ig…