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Nature Cell Biology 1, E39 - E40 (1999)
doi:10.1038/10032

Emerging targets for anti-inflammatory therapy

J. Han1,2 & R. J. Ulevitch1

  1. J. Han and R. J. Ulevitch are at the Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
  2. e-mail: jhan@scripps.edu

Correspondence to: R. J. Ulevitch1 e-mail: ulevitch@scripps.edu


Cytokines mediate acute and chronic inflammatory processes in disease. A new target for anti-inflammatory therapy has now been revealed, in the form of a kinase that promotes translation of specific cytokine messenger RNA species into proteins.

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