IL6, interleukin 6, 3569

N. diseases: 2367; N. variants: 22
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In synovial fragments, but not in isolated adherent cells at area A the in vitro IL-6 production starts earlier in RA than in OA. 1376492 1992
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Patients with RA had raised levels of IL-6 in both SF and serum compared with patients with osteoarthritis and age-matched healthy controls. 1531188 1992
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Similar results were found using osteoarthritis ST cells, although the percentage of cells expressing the IL-6 gene (7.1 +/- 2.5%) was significantly less in osteoarthritis compared to RA. 2109776 1990
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Synovial fluid (SF) mononuclear cells (MNC) from 13 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 12 patients with other arthritic diseases (OD) including osteoarthritis (OA), gout and spondyloarthritis (SA) were cultured in the presence of collagen types I and II or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for 24 h. Interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in the SF and culture supernatants were assayed using ELISA. 7622181 1995
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE IL-8 and IL-6 levels were significantly higher in CMV DNA-positive RA patients than CMV DNA-negative RA patients and at least 10-fold higher than in both corresponding control groups of patients with osteoarthritis (OA). 7948616 1994
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our results show that osteoblasts in the normal remodeling bone of osteoarthritis (controls) and in Paget's disease express IL-6, IL-6R, and NF-IL-6 genes with higher levels of IL-6 and IL-6R mRNA in pagetic bone. 8154312 1994
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE IL-1 beta, IL-6 and TGF-beta did not affect TIMP-2 expression but TGF-beta induced TIMP-1 mRNA in human OA chondrocytes. 8655631 1996
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE To compare the cytokine profile with the degree and composition of cellular infiltration in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) synovium, synovial membranes from patients with RA (n = 14) and OA (n = 5) were examined, employing immunohistochemistry and competitive reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), for interleukin (IL)-I beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, and IL-10, and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) gene expression. 9032818 1997
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data demonstrate that IL-6-type cytokines are constitutively expressed in the bone compartment in RA, OA and PT patients and can be secreted by bone cells at different stages of differentiation (BMSC and OB). 10632674 2000
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In patients with RA, mRNA expression of IL-6, but not TNFalpha and IL-1beta, in the cancellous bone and IL-6 and PGE2 production in the osteoblast-lineage cells were significantly higher than in patients with OA. 11281165 2001
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE TNF-a stimulation induced IL-6 secretion by RA SFB (3-fold) and OA SFB (4-fold), as well as MMP-1 secretion (RA, 85-fold; OA, 29-fold), with significant differences between RA and OA. 12913922 2003
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Q-PCR methods were validated by demonstrating increased expression of IL-1beta and IL-6 expression in rheumatoid arthritis synovial samples compared with osteoarthritis synovium. 14680510 2003
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE As we have demonstrated previously that protein I/II, a pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) from oral streptococci, triggers IL-6 and IL-8 gene expression and release from either THP-1 cells or fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs), we next explored the capacity of protein I/II to induce the synthesis and release of IL-18 in THP-1 cells and in FLSs isolated from either RA or osteoarthritis (OA) patients. 15104599 2004
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this study we compared several inflammatory cytokines, such as C-terminal parathyroid hormone-related peptide (C-PTHrP), soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) and interleukin (IL)-6, and an osteo-destruction marker, deoxypyridinoline, in synovial fluid (SF) samples obtained from 22 HTLV-I carriers and 58 control non-carrier patients with OA. 15225370 2004
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In contrast, in osteoarthritis FLSs only one gene, that for IL-6, was modulated. 15642131 2005
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Primary OA of the hip has an important genetic component and variations of genes encoding for inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-6, may play an important role in the series of events responsible for the pathophysiology of OA. 16198603 2005
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This study aims to investigate the effects of HMW-HA on the gene expression of 16 OA-associated cytokines and enzymes, including interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-6, IL-8, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, TNF-alpha converting enzyme (TACE), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-13, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1, TIMP-2, aggrecanase-1, aggrecanase-2, and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) from patients with early stage OA. 16806998 2006
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease LHGDN Synovial fluid IL-6 levels may help to classify OA patients and may point to a subgroup with a particular impact from their immune system. 17476620 2007
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, we were interested in whether we could identify IL-1 expression and activity within normal and osteoarthritic cartilage. mRNA expression of IL-1beta and of one of its major target genes, IL-6, was observed at very low levels in normal cartilage, whereas only a minor up-regulation of these cytokines was noted in osteoarthritic cartilage, suggesting that IL-1 signaling is not a major event in osteoarthritis. 17640966 2007
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between the IL-6 genotypes/diplotypes and the DIP OA outcome. 18257935 2008
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between the IL-6 genotypes/diplotypes and the DIP OA outcome. 18257935 2008
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cartilage degeneration in OA may also be due, at least in part, to IL-6 and MMP-13 produced by SBOs. 18528653 2008
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease LHGDN Cartilage degeneration in OA may also be due, at least in part, to IL-6 and MMP-13 produced by SBOs. 18528653 2008
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE PBMCs from RA patients spontaneously produced less IL-6 and TNFalpha than cells from OA and HC subjects. 18584044 2008
CUI: C0029408
Disease: Degenerative polyarthritis
Degenerative polyarthritis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE PAR-2 modulation was investigated in OA subchondral bone osteoblasts treated with IL-1 beta (100 pg/ml), TNF-alpha (5 ng/ml), TGF-beta1 (10 ng/ml), PGE(2) (500 nM), IL-6 (10 ng/ml) and IL-17 (10 ng/ml). 19264156 2009