The study consisted of 18 dogs divided into Three groups. Each group consisted of Six dogs with elbow, hip and stifle joint disorders respectively. All the dogs were subjected to synovial fluid evaluation. The physico-chemical parameters recorded in these dogs included synovial fluid volume, color, viscosity, transparency, protein concentration, total nucleated cell count and differential cell ...

The possibility that lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) might be sensitized to RA synovial cell antigens was investigated with a 51Cr release cytotoxicity assay. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from rheumatoid and normal donors were tested for cytotoxic activity against their own synovial cells and against allogeneic rheumatoid and nonrhemuatoid synovial cells. In the allogen...

OBJECTIVE Overexpression of the antiapoptotic protein myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial fibroblasts is a major cause of their resistance to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha)-induced apoptosis. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) in down-regulating Mcl-1 expression and its mechanism of RA synovial fibrob...

Synovial tissues in joints with prostheses display characteristic morphological changes in cases with aseptic failure, particularly macrophage infiltration. Since proliferation of the synovial lining cell layer represents a feature characteristic of autoimmune joint diseases, the possibility of morphological changes of the synovial lining cell layer in periprosthetic tissues was investigated. S...

OBJECTIVES Inflammatory arthritides/synovitides such as psoriatic (PsA), reactive (ReA) and rheumatoid (RA) arthritis share numerous immunopathological features, but develop different patterns of joint involvement. To investigate whether distinctive cell apoptosis may play a role in this context, we have assessed synovial cell apoptosis in situ in PsA and ReA, and compared it with RA and 'non-i...

INTRODUCTION Comparative data on synovial cell infiltrate and cytokine levels in anti citrullinated peptide/protein antibody (ACPA)-positive and ACPA negative rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are scarce. Our aim was to analyze synovial cell infiltrate and synovial fluid (SF) levels of cytokines in patients with RA according to the presence or absence of ACPA in serum. METHODS A cross-sectio...

Cultures of synovial cells obtained at surgery from patients with rheumatoid arthritis produced a protein which inhibits the mitosis of normal rabbit and human synovial cells, and of human lung fibroblasts. This mitotic inhibitory effect can be transferred to rabbit synovial cells by intra-articular injection of the animals with rheumatoid synovial cell cultures.

OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of ceramide, which is a lipid second messenger of cell surface receptors, including tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), interleukin 1 (IL1), and Fas receptors, on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial cells. METHODS Synovial cells from RA patients and normal skin fibroblasts were cultured with cell permeable ceramide (C2-ceramide). Apoptosis was assessed b...

Immunohistochemical study showed selective localisation of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) to the synovial lining layer. Although the synovial lining layer of the rheumatoid, osteoarthritic, and traumatic joints was hEGF positive, hEGF staining was especially dense at the rheumatoid synovial lining layer; the staining increasing linearly according to the degree of stratification of the lin...

Synovial mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a candidate cell source for cartilage and meniscus regeneration. If we can proliferate synovial MSCs more effectively, we can expand clinical applications to patients with large cartilage and meniscus lesions. TNFα is a pleiotropic cytokine that can affect the growth and differentiation of cells in the body. The purpose of this study was to examine the...