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Scientists find inflammation immune cell switch
By Kate Kelland
updated 1/16/2011 1:03:11 PM ET
LONDON — Scientists have found a protein that acts as a "master switch" to determine whether certain white blood cells will boost or dampen inflammation, a finding that may help the search for new drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.
Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis are treated with a class of drugs known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors made by various drug firms including Abbott Laboratories, Merck & Co, Pfizer and Amgen
But around 30 percent of patients don't respond to anti-TNF drugs, so experts say there is an urgent need to develop more widely effective treatment options.
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