Lowering Interleukin-12 Activity Improves Myocardial and Vascular Function Compared With Tumor Necrosis Factor-a Antagonism or Cyclosporine in Psoriasis
Author(s) -
Ignatios Ikonomidis,
Evangelia Papadavid,
George Makavos,
Ioanna Andreadou,
Maria Varoudi,
Kostas Gravanis,
Konstantinos Theodoropoulos,
George Pavlidis,
Helen Triantafyllidi,
Paraskevi Moutsatsou,
Christina Panagiotou,
John Parissis,
Efstathios K. Iliodromitis,
John Lekakis,
Dimitrios Rigopoulos
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-0080
pISSN - 1941-9651
DOI - 10.1161/circimaging.117.006283
Subject(s) - medicine , antagonism , psoriasis , tumor necrosis factor alpha , tumor necrosis factor α , interleukin , necrosis , cytokine , cardiology , pathology , immunology , receptor
Interleukin (IL)-12 activity is involved in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and acute coronary syndromes. We investigated the effects of IL-12 inhibition on vascular and left ventricular (LV) function in psoriasis.
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