Targeting the synovial tissue for treating osteoarthritis (OA): where is the evidence?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-79

  Attur, Mukundan ^a   Samuels, Jonathan ^a   Krasnokutsky, Svetlana ^a   Abramson, Steven B ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); osteoarthritis; synovitis; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; LUBRICIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; THROMBIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTHROSCOPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 74549217157     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.08.011     Document Type: Review

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