Key discovery in psoriatic arthritis points way for developing targeted treatments – Medical Xpress

A new study has revealed psoriatic arthritis may be activated by the same trigger in different patients. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Sanger Institute identified high levels of a specific receptor in immune cells from psoriatic arthritis patients, giving the strongest evidence yet of a single cause for the disease.
Published today in Nature Communications, this could lead to finding the exact molecular ‘trigger’ and gives hope for developing a targeted treatment in…

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