Measuring intranodal pressure and lymph viscosity to elucidate mechanisms of arthritic flare and therapeutic outcomes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1240, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-52

  Bouta, Echoe M ^a   Wood, Ronald W ^a   Perry, Seth W ^a   Brown, Edward B ^a   Ritchlin, Christopher T ^a   Xing, Lianping ^a   Schwarz, Edward M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flare; Lymph node; Lymph viscosity; Lymphatic pressure; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GLASS; WATER;

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HINDLIMB; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE PRESSURE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPH VISCOSITY; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPIPETTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POPLITEAL LYMPH NODE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER;

EID: 83755186539     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06237.x     Document Type: Article

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