Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack the lining around joints, called the ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by chronic inflammation of synovium, eventually leading to joint destruction. Epigenetic alteration (the mechanism of gene expression regulation without ...

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The team performed an in-depth investigation of a specific population of cells: the macrophages that reside in the synovium of RA patients, individuals-at-risk of RA, and healthy controls.

Anti-MCV antibodies recognize a protein that originates from apoptotic macrophages and is present in the synovium of patients with RA. Nicaise Roland and colleagues investigated the usefulness of ...

Cadherins are integral transmembrane proteins that are involved in cell sorting, cell aggregation and tissue morphogenesis during embryogenesis, and postnatally, mediate cell-to-cell adhesion.