| Literature DB >> 32229095 |
Etienne Crickx1, Jean-Claude Weill2, Claude-Agnès Reynaud2, Matthieu Mahévas3.
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B-cell depletion with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies is widely used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. This review will discuss mechanisms contributing to success or failure of B-cell depletion therapy in antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases. It will also explain how key information about disease pathogeny can be provided by the different outcomes observed after B-cell depletion therapy. These findings provide the basis for future innovative therapeutic strategies aiming at an optimized B cell and/or plasma cell depletion to increase long-term disease remission.Entities:
Keywords: cell survival; systemic lupus erythematosus; vasculitis
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32229095 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2019.12.025
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Kidney Int ISSN: 0085-2538 Impact factor: 10.612