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ArticleArthritis research & therapy2011

Trapped in a vicious loop: Toll-like receptors sustain the spontaneous cytokine production by rheumatoid synovium.

Shahla Abdollahi-Roodsaz, Fons A J van de Loo, Wim B van den Berg

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Article in Arthritis research & therapy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shahla Abdollahi-Roodsaz
Fons A J van de Loo
Wim B van den Berg
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLRadboud University Medical Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synovial tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) spontaneously produces several cytokines, of which a fundamental role in joint inflammation and destruction has been established. However, the factors sustaining this phenomenon remain poorly understood. In a recent report, blockade of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) was found to inhibit the spontaneous release of inflammatory cytokines by intact RA synovial explant cultures. Adding to the recent evidence implicating other TLRs (in particular, TLR4), this observation highlights the potential of TLRs as therapeutic targets to suppress the local production of multiple cytokines and to control the chronic inflammatory loop in RA.

Indexed as

Arthritis, RheumatoidFemaleHumansMaleSynovial MembraneToll-Like Receptor 2Toll-Like Receptor 2

Identifiers

PMID21542897
PMCPMC3132033
OpenAlexW2157488005

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