[As anti-cytokine therapies were developed for clinical use during the last decade, anti-IL-1 therapies have emerged as a highly effective treatment for cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPSs), including the `urticaria-like rash.` Based on clinical observations, we hypothesized that NLPR3 activation and IL-1β production, in particular in mast cells (MCs), are important for the development of this eruption, due to the observation that CAPS patients have gain-of-function mutations in NLRP3 that result in unregulated excess levels of IL-1β.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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