Gait changes precede overt arthritis and strongly correlate with symptoms and histopathological events in pristane-induced arthritis

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Hoffmann, Markus H ^a   Hopf, Rudolf ^b   Niederreiter, Birgit ^a   Redl, Heinz ^b   Smolen, Josef S ^a   Steiner, Günter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRISTANE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; GAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; JOINT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TENOSYNOVITIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL LAMENESS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; GAIT; HINDLIMB; JOINTS; KINESIS; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TERPENES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949470480     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar2950     Document Type: Article

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