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ReviewClinical and experimental immunology2017

The role of interleukin-6 signalling and its therapeutic blockage in skewing the T cell balance in rheumatoid arthritis.

K Schinnerling, J C Aguillón, D Catalán, L Soto

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Review in Clinical and experimental immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Inflammatory Arthritis.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026
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  3. Journal of oral microbiology · 2026
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  4. International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. Treg plasticity and human diseases.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2023
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  9. IL-2-based approaches to Treg enhancement.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2023
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  13. Tetrandrine Ameliorates Rheumatoid Arthritis in Mice by Alleviating Neutrophil Activities.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

K SchinnerlingPrograma Disciplinario de Inmunología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
J C AguillónPrograma Disciplinario de Inmunología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
D CatalánPrograma Disciplinario de Inmunología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-4353-1229
L SotoPrograma Disciplinario de Inmunología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy · CLHospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic blockage of cytokine signalling in autoimmune diseases has improved our understanding of the role of these cytokines in triggering, shaping and perpetuating autoimmune responses. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), immunopathology is driven by a predominance of arthritogenic T helper cells secreting interferon-γ [T helper type 1 (Th1)] and interleukin (IL)-17 (Th17) over regulatory T cells (T

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedArthritis, RheumatoidHumansInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17Interleukin-6Receptors, Interleukin-6Signal TransductionTh17 CellsT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedInterferon-gammaInterleukin-17Interleukin-6Receptors, Interleukin-6tocilizumabinterleukin 6rheumatoid arthritisT cell plasticityTh17/Treg balancetocilizumab

Identifiers

PMID28369786
PMCPMC5461092
OpenAlexW2604898275

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