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Identification of markers of responsiveness in rheum...

Despite the increasing of available drugs in RA, the overall rate of non response is 30 to 40% of treated patients. To optimize the drug prescription and better elaborate the therapeutic strategies, gene profiling in PBMCs was used to predict the responsiveness to anakinra. Thirty two patients treated by anakinra (100mg/day s.c.) and méthotrexate, were categorized as responders whenever a change of Disease Activity Score 28 > 1.2 was obtained at 3 months. Blood from treated patients was colle...

Keywords: anakinra effect expression profiling by array

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