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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2015 Nov 19;12(3):143–153. doi: 10.1038/nrrheum.2015.159

Table 2.

Potential targets of therapy in LN (76, 147, 154, 158, 162, 165)

Immune based therapies
 Innate immune mechanisms, eg inflammasome
 Adaptive immunity eg costimulatory blockade
 Effector cells, eg plasma cells, macrophages
 Effector pathways, eg alternative complement pathway, TWEAK/Fn14 pathway
 Soluble inflammatory mediators, eg cytokines/chemokines
 Signaling molecules eg, kinases, mTOR
Protection of intrinsic renal cells
 Renin angiotensin system
 Endothelin 1
 Growth factors, eg PDGF
 Oxidative stress, eg NADP oxidases
Improved microcirculation
 Phosphodiesterase 5
Anti-fibrotics
 Growth factors, eg TGFβ, CTGF
 Growth factor antagonists, eg HGF mimetic, BMP7 mimetic
Others
 Epigenomic reprogramming
 Mesenchymal stem cells