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The role of interleukin-17 in immune-mediated inflammatory myopathies and possible therapeutic implications.

[inclusion body myositis]

The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune muscle disorders with distinct clinical and pathological features and underlying immunopathogenic mechanisms. Traditionally, CD4(+) Th1 cells or CD8(+) cytotoxic effector T cells and type I/II interferons have been primarily implicated in the pathogenesis of the inflammatory myopathies. The presence of IL-17A producing cells in the inflamed muscle tissue of myositis patients and the results of in vitro studies suggest that IL-17A and the Th17 pathway may also have a key role in these diseases. The contribution of IL-17A to other chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases has been well established and clinical trials of IL-17A inhibitors are now at an advanced stage. However the precise role of IL-17A in the various forms of myositis and the potential for therapeutic targeting is currently unknown and warrants further investigation.

Diseases presenting "autoimmune diseases" symptom

  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • aniridia
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • inclusion body myositis
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • oligodontia
  • omenn syndrome
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • sneddon syndrome
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome

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