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Tocilizumab, marketed under the brand Actemra by Roche Holding AG, targets a certain molecule in the body called "interleukin-6 receptor" and reduces inflammation in RA patients.
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Macrophages and fat cells produce powerful substances called tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, which help regulate the immune system.
Stephen Barrie, ND: Your Fat Cells Control Your Brain ND Stephen Barrie 2010
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Macrophages and fat cells produce powerful substances called tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, which help regulate the immune system.
Stephen Barrie, ND: Your Fat Cells Control Your Brain ND Stephen Barrie 2010
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Participants with low education level and greater eudaimonic well-being had lower levels of interleukin-6, an inflammatory marker of disease associated with cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease, than those with lower eudaimonic well-being, even after taking hedonic well-being into account.
Is Happiness Overrated? Shirley S. Wang 2011
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On each night after reading either an emotional or neutral short story, they sprayed a fluid into their nostrils which contained either interleukin-6 or a placebo fluid.
Boing Boing 2009
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Macrophages and fat cells produce powerful substances called tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, which help regulate the immune system.
Stephen Barrie, ND: Your Fat Cells Control Your Brain ND Stephen Barrie 2010
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One research study found that those experiencing chronic stress had higher levels of interleukin-6, or IL-6, which are pro-inflammatory cytokines that act as signaling messengers between cells of the immune system and which can whip up the immune cells to turn against the body itself.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Kerr has found that levels of a particular protein, interleukin-6, or IL-6, are dramatically elevated in the spinal fluid of patients with transverse myelitis.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Uncoupling of ATP-mediated calcium signaling and dysregulated interleukin-6 secretion in dendritic cells by nanomolar thimerosal.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Uncoupling of ATP-mediated calcium signaling and dysregulated interleukin-6 secretion in dendritic cells by nanomolar thimerosal.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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