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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Therapy Uses Adeno-Associated Virus Vector to Deliver Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 13th, 2000

A rat model of rheumatoid arthritis gene therapy demonstrated therapeutic and preventive effects, researchers from Taiwan reported.

They evaluated "recombinant adenoassociated virus vector encoding interleukin-l receptor antagonist (rAAV-IL-1Ra) complementary DNA for its potential in the treatment and prevention of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced arthritis," stated R.Y. Pan and colleagues, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan.

Pan et al. published the results of their study in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism ("Therapy and prevention of arthritis by recombinant adeno-associated virus vector with delivery of interleukin-1 receptor...

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