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Arthritis is common, crippling, chronic and incurable. Many patients respond poorly to conventional treatments and thus the pursuit of novel therapies is encouraged. For reasons defended elsewhere (Evans and Robbins, 1994a, b) we suggest the development of gene treatments for arthritis.
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Evans, C.H., Robbins, P.D. (1995). Arthritis. In: Dickson, G. (eds) Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Gene Therapeutics. Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Diseases Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0547-7_13
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