The limited improvement in the WOMAC pain score and the lack of synovitis improvement with lutikizumab, together with published results from trials of other IL-1 inhibitors, suggest that IL-1 inhibition is not an effective analgesic/antiinflammatory therapy in most patients with knee OA and associated synovitis.
The serum levels of IL-1, TNF-α in experimental group of mild, moderate and severe sub-group were gradually increasing, the difference was statistically significant (p<0.05); while the level of IL-6 in the early, middle stage of OA increased significantly, and the late was reduced (p<0.05).
IL1R1, encoding interleukin 1 receptor type 1, is located in the IL-1 gene cluster and is involved in the pathogenesis of hand, hip, and knee osteoarthritis (OA) in different ethnicities.