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Emerging targets for anti-inflammatory therapy

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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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Figure 1: Regulation of cytokine genes by the p38 MAP-kinase pathway

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