The aim of this study was to elucidate signs of granulocyte activation by studying adhesion
and phagocytosis receptors on peripheral blood granulocytes from patients with rheumatoid …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) leads to destruction of cartilage and bone. Whether rheumatoid
arthritis also affects the adjacent bone marrow is less clear. In this study, we investigated …

Infiltration of the synovium by mononuclear cells, namely lymphocytes and monocytes, is
one of the main features of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is considered to be responsible for …

Synovial fluid from patients with various arthritides contains procoagulant, cell-derived
microparticles. Here we studied whether synovial microparticles modulate the release of …

Background Osteoclast-mediated bone erosion is a central feature of rheumatoid arthritis
(RA). Immune complexes, present in a large percentage of patients, bind to Fcγ receptors …

Objective. To determine the capacity of CD14+ monocyte‐lineage cells induced from bone
marrow of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients to stimulate the production of IgM rheumatoid …

Infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) and lymphocytes into joints is a
prominent feature of human and experimental arthritis. Here we evaluated the usefulness of …

In this article, we discussed leukocytapheresis (LCAP) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Recently, a simple and practical on-line continuous LACP system has been developed. It is …

OBJECTIVE To determine the presence of adhesion molecules on monocytes/macrophages
(Mφ) from peripheral blood (PB) and synovial fluid (SF) in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) …

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether local removal of phagocytic synovial lining cells (SLCs)
from the knee joint before onset of collagen type II arthritis has an effect on development of …