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ReviewSeminars in arthritis and rheumatism2025

Immune checkpoint inhibitors and rheumatoid arthritis: All roads lead to PD-1?

Laura C Cappelli

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Review in Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Highly Alkaline-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Laura C CappelliJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Suite 1B1, Baltimore, MD 21212, USA.. Electronic address: lcappel1@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Understanding Inflammatory Arthritis due to Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsK23AR075872 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CAPPELLI, LAURA CHRISTINE · 2019 to 2023
$779k
NIAMS NIH HHS K23 AR075872
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint molecules like PD-1 and its ligand PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are important regulators of the immune system. Medications blocking these pathways, immune checkpoint inhibitors, have been used to treat a variety of malignancies, while drugs agonizing these pathways, like abatacept, have been used in treating autoimmune diseases. Modulation of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis has become important for rheumatologists to understand in several different clinical scenarios. Currently, PD-1 agonists are being developed for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In addition to patients with RA being potentially treated with PD-1 agonists, patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors if they develop cancer. Finally, patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors may develop de novo inflammatory arthritis and be referred to rheumatology for management. In all three scenarios, there remain many unanswered clinical and translational questions. The parallel development of therapeutics antagonizing and agonizing the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway presents a unique chance for discovery in inflammatory arthritis.

Indexed as

Arthritis, RheumatoidImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorB7-H1 AntigenHumansB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, humanImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorCancerImmune checkpoint inhibitorInflammatory arthritisRheumatoid arthritis

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PMID39578183
PMCPMC11761356

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