DRUG

tocilizumab

4 hypotheses across 4 therapeutic domains

CROSS-DOMAIN PATTERN

Same drug, multiple disease domains

tocilizumab appears in hypotheses across 4 disease domains: Depression, Inflammatory bowel disease, Rheumatoid arthritis, Type 2 diabetes. Shared mediators that recur across at least two of those domains: C-reactive protein.

Aggregated from the catalog. Biological interpretation of any multi-indication mechanism would require independent validation — this is a structural observation only.

ALL HYPOTHESES

Repurposing candidates for tocilizumab

Depression 1

Mediator Outcome Score Tier Lit. status Trial
IL-8 major depressive disorder 0.230 Mid partial evidence active

Inflammatory bowel disease 1

Mediator Outcome Score Tier Lit. status Trial
C-reactive protein Crohn's disease 0.208 Mid reproduces known none

Rheumatoid arthritis 1

Mediator Outcome Score Tier Lit. status Trial
STAT3 prurigo nodularis 0.208 Mid novel signal none

Type 2 diabetes 1

Mediator Outcome Score Tier Lit. status Trial
C-reactive protein type 2 diabetes 0.230 Mid reproduces known completed

Clinical trials

200 registered trials for tocilizumab

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov