Drugs Targeting B-Cells in Autoimmune Diseases

This book offers a detailed overview of B-cell directed therapies in patients with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, ANCA-associated vasculitis and cryoglobulinemia.

Written and edited by leading international experts with long clinical experience Provides comprehensive background and practical information for scientists, clinicians and pharmaceutical companies Improves the understanding of and the decision for this new therapies of autoimmune diseases Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Historic outline of the development of drugs targeting B-cells.- Understanding B-cell biology.- Pharmacological effects and mechanisms of action of agents blocking B cells.- Systemic lupus erythematosus: direct B-cell blocking.- Systemic lupus erythematosus: indirect B-cell blocking.- B-cell targeted therapies in rheumatoid arthritis.- B-cell targeted therapies in Primary Sjögren Syndrome.- Targeting B cells in ANCA-associated vasculitis.- B-cell targeted therapies in systemic sclerosis and inflammatory myopathies.- B-cell targeted therapies in cryoglobulinemia.- B-cell targeted therapies in autoimmune cytopenias and thrombosis.- Targeting B cells in neurological autoimmune diseases.- Targeting B cells in other systemic autoimmune diseases.- Safety of B-cell targeted therapies.- The future potential of biosimilars targeting B-cells.