Role of interleukin-6 and interferon-α in systemic lupus erythematosus: A case-control study and meta-analysis.

Sarit Sekhar PattanaikAditya Kumar PandaAbhijit PatiSunali PadhiRina TripathySaumya Ranjan TripathyManoj Kumar ParidaBidyut Kumar Das

Published in: Lupus (2022)

IL-6 and IFN-α levels are elevated in SLE and they correlate with disease activity. Further studies with a larger sample size in different populations are required to validate our findings.

Keyphrases

disease activity
systemic lupus erythematosus
dendritic cells
rheumatoid arthritis
rheumatoid arthritis patients
ankylosing spondylitis
juvenile idiopathic arthritis
immune response
case control
genetic diversity