IL6, interleukin 6, 3569

N. diseases: 2367; N. variants: 22
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Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This meta-analysis demonstrates that FCGR3A V allele carriers show a better response to rituximab, and individuals carrying the IL-6 -174 C allele show a poorer response to anti-TNF therapy for RA. 24728031 2014
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Thus, our data provide new insight into RA pathogenesis and provide evidence that inflammatory cytokines trigger a cytokine amplification loop via IL-6-STAT3 that promotes sustained inflammation and joint destruction. 21937456 2011
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE To investigate the expression levels of T follicular helper (Tfh) with different subsets in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-17 (IL-17), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP-3) contents. 30657547 2019
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The blockade of IL-6 with tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with improvements in the quality of sleep. 24120697 2013
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Taken together, the results we demonstrated above indicated that the hypoxia microenvironment could effectively induce the incidence of autophagy and then lead to the immune activation function of RA-FLSs medicated by IL-6. 28053286 2017
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Transgenic overexpression of CLU in RA FLS promoted apoptosis within 24 h. We observed that CLU knockdown with small interfering RNA promoted IL-6 and IL-8 production. 17056579 2006
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These findings suggest an association between elevated IL-8 and IL-6 levels and the presence of the CMV genome in RA patients. 7948616 1994
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Treatment with gambogic acid suppressed the activities of interleukin (IL)‑1β and IL‑6, promoted the protein expression of phosphorylated (p)‑Akt serine/threonine kinase (Akt), p‑mammalian target protein of rapamycin (mTOR) and inhibited hypoxia‑inducible factor‑1α and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in RA rats. 28901512 2017
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that a specific NF-kappaB transcriptional regulatory network of 13 genes is associated with SF response to RA proinflammatory stimulus and identify a significant epistatic association of two of its genes, IL6 and IL4I1, with RA susceptibility. 17482423 2007
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Tocilizumab (TCZ) is a humanized antihuman interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antibody used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 30357484 2019
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 (IL-6) cytokine signaling is key in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) pathophysiology. 26336855 2015
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results do not confirm in a Spanish population the association of IL6 gene with CV disease in RA previously reported in the UK. 21889771 2011
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE One-third of affected individuals had persistent pain months to years postepidemic and the identified risk factors for functional disability were identified.Inflammatory biomarkers associated with disease severity of RA such as interleukin 6 (IL6), and relevant chemokines have been found to correlate with the severity of postepidemic chronic disease. 28376065 2017
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Sarilumab (Kevzara<sup>®</sup>), a monoclonal antibody against the interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor, is approved in various countries, including the USA, those of the EU, and Japan, as a subcutaneous treatment administered every 2 weeks for moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults who have responded inadequately to, or are intolerant of, one or more DMARDs. 29931592 2018
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Accordingly, the apelin-MMP-2 concentration relationship was reproduced in white (β (SE) = 0.367 (0.146), p = 0.01) but not black RA patients (β (SE) = 0.197 (0.220), p = 0.4), and only in those without (but not with) large erythrocyte sedimentation rates (β (SE) = 0.428 (0.143), p = 0.003) or interleukin-6 levels (β (SE) = 0.485 (0.288), p = 0.04). 28017911 2017
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin 6 (IL-6) receptor (IL-6R) inhibition by tocilizumab is a novel anti-inflammatory therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. 21551509 2011
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In addition, the levels of proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor‑α and interleukin‑6 were markedly decreased in RA‑FLS following CCP‑LPDR treatment. 30106091 2018
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We found evidence that the IL-10 expression was functionally relevant, as neutralization of endogenously produced IL-10 in the RA synovial membrane cultures resulted in a two- to threefold increase in the protein levels of proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and IL-1 beta, although IL-6 and IL-8 levels were not affected. 8163935 1994
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, the contributions of exogenous and endogenous IL-17 to IL-6 production by RA synovium were studied. 10323452 1999
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE OB and BMSC were isolated from femora of RA, OA and post-traumatic (PT) patients, cultured in vitro in the presence or absence of IL-1beta and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and assessed for the production and mRNA expression of IL-6-type cytokines. 10632674 2000
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Taurine chloramine (Tau-Cl) has been shown to inhibit the production of proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin-6 [IL-6] and IL-8) by fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) isolated from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. 11037876 2000
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional cytokine that is involved in the progression of various inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and certain cancers; for example, multiple myeloma or hepatocellular carcinoma. 24440854 2014
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, Dkk-1 levels showed an inverse correlation with IL-6 levels in both SpA SF (r = -0.31, P = 0.04) and RA SF (r = -0.39, P = 0.01); this result was reproduced at the messenger RNA level in synovial tissue. 25941031 2015
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Stimulation with CCL25 increased IL-6 and MMP-3 production from RA FLS, and IL-6 and TNF-α production from peripheral blood monocytes. 25248373 2014
CUI: C0003873
Disease: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Stimulation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblast cells with PGN increased the accumulation of phosphorylated c-Jun in the nucleus, AP-1-luciferase activity, and c-Jun binding to the AP-1 element on the IL-6 promoter. 19635908 2009