In patients with severe refractory psoriasis, treatment with recombinant human interleukin-4 (rhuIL-4) provides significant clinical benefit, and may represent a new therapeutic approach to other Th1-associated autoimmune diseases.
That’s according to a report in the January issue of Nature Medicine posted online December 2nd. “This is the first clinical trial where IL-4 was given for the treatment of an inflammatory autoimmune disease in humans,” team leader Dr. Martin Rcken of Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany, noted in comments to Reuters Health.
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