Upregulated hypoxia inducible factor-1α and -2α pathway in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Giatromanolaki, Alexandra ^a   Sivridis, Efthimios ^a   Maltezos, Efstratios ^a   Athanassou, Nick ^b   Papazoglou, Dimitrios ^a   Gatter, Kevin C ^b   Harris, Adrian L ^b   Koukourakis, Michael I ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Tumor and Angiogenesis Research Group Alexandroupolis   (Greece)

Author keywords

hypoxia inducible factors; osteoarthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; thymidine phosphorylase; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; HIF1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 2, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 2, ALPHA SUBUNIT; LYMPHOKINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STROMA CELL; SYNOVIUM; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; STROMAL CELLS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0242335590     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar756     Document Type: Article

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