background: the effectiveness of t cell vaccination has been demonstrated in a variety of animal models of both induced and spontaneous autoimmune diseases. objective: the purpose of this study was to test the t cell vaccination protocol to treat and prevent collagen induced arthritis (cia) in a rheumatoid arthritis model. methods: cia was induced by an intradermal injection of an artheritogen ...

Background: IL-4 is a cytokine that induces differentiation of naive helper T cells into Th2 cells. Once activated by IL-4, Th2 cells subsequently produce additional IL-4. Objective: To examine the effect of IL-4 on IL-17 production and its effect in Collagen- Induced Arthritis (CIA) mice. Method: In this study, a chicken collagen-II-induced experimental arthritis (CIA) model was used in DBA/1 ...

background: il-4 is a cytokine that induces differentiation of naive helper t cells into th2 cells. once activated by il-4, th2 cells subsequently produce additional il-4. objective: to examine the effect of il-4 on il-17 production and its effect in collagen- induced arthritis (cia) mice. method: in this study, a chicken collagen-ii-induced experimental arthritis (cia) model was used in dba/1 ...

OBJECTIVE The immune response to post-translationally modified antigens is a key characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis. Carbamylation is such a posttranslational modification. Recently, we demonstrated that autoantibodies recognizing carbamylated proteins are present in sera of rheumatoid arthritis. The molecular mechanisms underlying the break of tolerance and hence the induction of anti-CarP...

In 1977, Trentham et al. (1) described a model of polyarthritis induced in rats by immunization with type II collagen. The lesions identified on histopathologic examination resembled those of human rheumatoid arthritis (RA) 1. In addition, the arthritis was associated with high levels of both cellular and humoral immunity to collagen (2). Since collagen-related autoimmunity has also been descri...

rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the sequestration of various leukocyte subpopulations within both the developing pannus and synovial space. this study was undertaken to examine the therapeutic potency of tindurin in experimental rheumatoid arthritis. collagen-induced arthritis (cia) was induced by intradermally immunization of lewis rats at the base of th...

Arthritis can be induced in rats by intradermal injection of oil containing bacterial derivatives (adjuvant-induced arthritis) or cartilage collagen (type II collagen-induced arthritis). It was of interest, therefore, to determine whether collagen functions as an autoantigen in rats with adjuvant arthritis. Blood mononuclear cells from the majority of rats with adjuvant arthritis exhibited enha...

The present study details the time course and isotype distribution of the immune response to type II collagen in collagen-induced arthritic mice and mice suppressed for collagen-induced arthritis. The serum of arthritic mice was observed to contain significantly higher (p less than 0.005) concentrations of antibodies to type II collagen than that of mice suppressed for arthritis at all times te...

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of nanopowdered peanut sprout-added Caciocavallo cheese (NPCC) on the prevention and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in DBA/IJ mice immunized with type II collagen. After the induction of arthritis, the mice were being divided into five groups: (1) normal, no immunization; (2) CIA, collagen-induced arthritis; (3) MTX, collagen-induc...