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Review
. 2006 Aug;55(8):1071-3.
doi: 10.1136/gut.2005.090134.

Interfering with interferons in inflammatory bowel disease

S Ghosh  1 , R Chaudhary, M Carpani, R Playford
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Review

Interfering with interferons in inflammatory bowel disease

S Ghosh et al. Gut. 2006 Aug.

Abstract

Early experience of fontolizumab, a humanised anti‐interferon γ antibody, in active Crohn's disease has shown that the drug caused a significant decrease in endoscopic severity scores and CRP and was reasonably well tolerated. Fontolizumab may be worthy of further clinical trials

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