Comparison of synovial tissues from the knee joints and the small joints of rheumatoid arthritis patients: Implications for pathogenesis and evaluation of treatment

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2034-2038

  Kraan, Maarten C ^a   Reece, Richard J ^b   Smeets, Tom J M ^a   Veale, Douglas J ^b   Emery, Paul ^b   Tak, Paul P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERLEUKIN-6; KNEE JOINT; MACROPHAGES; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0036676818     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10556     Document Type: Article

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