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Infliximab (chimeric anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody) versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving concomitant methotrexate: a randomised phase III trial. ATTRACT Study Group.

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Infliximab was well-tolerated; withdrawals for adverse events as well as the occurrence of serious adverse events or serious infections did not exceed those in the placebo group.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1999-12-04. It has received 2411 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Infliximab & Rheumatoid arthritis.

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Activators and target genes of Rel/NF-kappaB transcription factors.

TL;DR: It is argued that NF-κB functions more generally as a central regulator of stress responses and pairing stress responsiveness and anti-apoptotic pathways through the use of a common transcription factor may result in increased cell survival following stress insults.
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Tuberculosis associated with infliximab, a tumor necrosis factor alpha-neutralizing agent

TL;DR: Infliximab is a humanized antibody against tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) that is used in the treatment of Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis but there is no direct evidence of a protective role of TNF- α in patients with tuberculosis.
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Infliximab and methotrexate in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis with Concomitant Therapy Study Group.

TL;DR: In patients with persistently active rheumatoid arthritis despite methotrexate therapy, repeated doses of infliximab in combination with methotRexate provided clinical benefit and halted the progression of joint damage.
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Anti-TNF Antibody Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Risk of Serious Infections and Malignancies: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Rare Harmful Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials

TL;DR: There is evidence of an increased risk of serious infections and a dose-dependent increasedrisk of malignancies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-TNF antibody therapy.
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Cytokine Pathways and Joint Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

TL;DR: Current slow-acting antirheumatic drugs have limited efficacy and many side effects and do not improve the long-term prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Role of cytokines in rheumatoid arthritis

TL;DR: Overall these studies demonstrate that analysis of cytokine expression and regulation may yield effective therapeutic targets in inflammatory disease.
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A trial of etanercept, a recombinant tumor necrosis factor receptor:Fc fusion protein, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving methotrexate.

TL;DR: In patients with persistently active rheumatoid arthritis, the combination of etanercept and methotrexate was safe and well tolerated and provided significantly greater clinical benefit than metotrexate alone.
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Randomised double-blind comparison of chimeric monoclonal antibody to tumour necrosis factor alpha (cA2) versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis.

TL;DR: The results provide the first good evidence that specific cytokine blockade can be effective in human inflammatory disease and define a new direction for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Therapeutic efficacy of multiple intravenous infusions of anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody combined with low-dose weekly methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis.

TL;DR: Multiple infusions of cA2 were effective and well tolerated, with the best results occurring at 3 and 10 mg/kg either alone or in combination with MTX in approximately 60% of patients with active RA despite therapy with low-dose MTX.
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