Pharmacological modulation of nucleic acid sensors—therapeutic potential and persisting obstacles

C Vanpouille-Box, JA Hoffmann… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Nucleic acid sensors, primarily TLR and RLR family members, as well as cGAS–STING
signalling, play a critical role in the preservation of cellular and organismal homeostasis …

Regulation of immune responses and chronic inflammation by fibroblast-like synoviocytes

H Yoshitomi - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Synovial tissue is a membranous non-immune organ lining joint cavities where it supports
local immune responses, and functions directly and indirectly in joint destruction due to …

Platelets: emerging facilitators of cellular crosstalk in rheumatoid arthritis

O Olumuyiwa-Akeredolu, MJ Page, P Soma… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which a variety of circulating pro-
inflammatory cells and dysregulated molecules are involved in disease aetiology and …

The Role of calprotectin in rheumatoid arthritis

Q Wang, W Chen, J Lin - Journal of translational internal medicine, 2019 - degruyter.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by
inflammatory cell infiltration, high levels of cytokines, and erosion of cartilage and bone in …

Impact of mechanical load on the expression profile of synovial fibroblasts from patients with and without osteoarthritis

A Schröder, U Nazet, D Muschter, S Grässel… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) affects the integrity of the entire joint including the synovium. The most
abundant cells in the synovium are fibroblasts (SF). Excessive mechanical loading might …

A cell-penetrating peptide blocks Toll-like receptor-mediated downstream signaling and ameliorates autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in mice

HK Kwon, MC Patra, HJ Shin, X Gui, A Achek… - … & Molecular Medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize pathogen/damage-associated molecular patterns and
initiate inflammatory signaling cascades. Occasionally, overexpression of TLRs leads to the …

Housekeeping gene validation for RT-qPCR studies on synovial fibroblasts derived from healthy and osteoarthritic patients with focus on mechanical loading

U Nazet, A Schröder, S Grässel, D Muschter, P Proff… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Selection of appropriate housekeeping genes is essential for the validity of data
normalization in reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Synovial fibroblasts (SF) …

[HTML][HTML] Opuntioside, opuntiol and its metallic nanoparticles attenuate adjuvant-induced arthritis: novel suppressors of toll-like receptors-2 and-4

T Roome, S Aziz, A Razzak, Z Aslam, KS Jamali… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease of synovial inflammation and
joint destruction. This study reports anti-arthritic potential of opuntioside-I opuntiol, and its …

MiRNA-506 inhibits rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes proliferation and induces apoptosis by targetting TLR4

D Li, Q Zhou, G Hu, G Wang - Bioscience reports, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) play a crucial role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
pathogenesis. While miRNA (miR)-506 has been implicated in the progression of multiple …

Analysis of gene expression in rheumatoid arthritis and related conditions offers insights into sex-bias, gene biotypes and co-expression patterns

A Platzer, T Nussbaumer, T Karonitsch, JS Smolen… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The era of next-generation sequencing has mounted the foundation of many gene
expression studies. In rheumatoid arthritis research, this has led to the discovery of important …