TNF is a potential therapeutic target to suppress prostatic inflammation and hyperplasia in autoimmune disease

Reduction of systemic autoimmunity using TNF blockers may also reduce inflammatory diseases in other organs. Here, the authors use a patient database and scRNA-seq to link autoimmune diseases to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and demonstrate that prostatic hyperplasia is reduced by TNF blockers...

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Main Authors: Renee E. Vickman, LaTayia Aaron-Brooks, Renyuan Zhang, Nadia A. Lanman, Brittany Lapin, Victoria Gil, Max Greenberg, Takeshi Sasaki, Gregory M. Cresswell, Meaghan M. Broman, J. Sebastian Paez, Jacqueline Petkewicz, Pooja Talaty, Brian T. Helfand, Alexander P. Glaser, Chi-Hsiung Wang, Omar E. Franco, Timothy L. Ratliff, Kent L. Nastiuk, Susan E. Crawford, Simon W. Hayward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29719-1