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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2018

Role of the IL-23/IL-17 Axis in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: The Clinical Importance of Its Divergence in Skin and Joints.

Marie-Astrid Boutet, Alessandra Nerviani, Gabriele Gallo Afflitto, Costantino Pitzalis

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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109citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 205 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Sex Hormones in Psoriatic Disease: A Systematic Review.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2026
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  4. Association between IL-17A, IL-17F and IL-17RA gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a meta-analysis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2021
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  7. Skewed MHC Class I Peptide Presentation in Psoriatic Arthritis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marie-Astrid BoutetCentre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK. m.a.boutet@qmul.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1519-6902
Alessandra NervianiCentre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK. a.nerviani@qmul.ac.uk.
Gabriele Gallo AfflittoUnit of Allergology, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Università campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy. gabgallo9@gmail.com.
Costantino PitzalisCentre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK. c.pitzalis@qmul.ac.uk.
Queen Mary University of London · GBUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

Funding

Medical Research Council G0800648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psoriasis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease causing erythematosus and scaly skin plaques; up to 30% of patients with psoriasis develop Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), which is characterised by inflammation and progressive damage of the peripheral joints and/or the spine and/or the entheses. The pathogenic mechanisms driving the skin disorder in psoriasis and the joint disease in PsA are sustained by the activation of inflammatory pathways that can be overlapping, but also, at least partially, distinct. Cytokines members of the IL-23/IL-17 family, critical in the development of autoimmunity, are abundantly expressed within the cutaneous lesions but also seem to be involved in chronic inflammation and damage of the synovium though, as it will be here discussed, not in all patients. In this review, we will focus on the state of the art of the molecular features of psoriatic skin and joints, focusing on the specific role of the IL-23/IL-17 pathway in each of these anatomical districts. We will then offer an overview of the approved and in-development biologics targeting this axis, emphasising how the availability of the "target" in the diseased tissues could provide a plausible explanation for the heterogeneous clinical efficacy of these drugs, thus opening future perspective of personalised therapies.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthritis, PsoriaticBiological ProductsHumansInterleukin-17Interleukin-23JointsPrecision MedicineSkinBiological ProductsInterleukin-17Interleukin-23interleukin-17interleukine-23psoriasispsoriatic arthritisTh17 cells

Identifiers

PMID29425183
PMCPMC5855752
OpenAlexW2791429177

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