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A Safer Autoimmunity Treatment Blunts Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2 of 2)

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A Safer Autoimmunity Treatment Blunts Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2 of 2)

video: Jorn Drappa, senior author of the new study, responding to the question, "What promise does targeting CD40L potentially offer over therapies that target TNFa and IL-17, which are currently under clinical development?". This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 24, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.L. Karnell at Viela Bio in Gaithersburg, MD; and colleagues was titled, "A CD40L-targeting protein reduces autoantibodies and improves disease activity in patients with autoimmunity." view more 

Credit: Jorn Drappa


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