Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Published on 12. April 1995
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-12-340440-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rheumatoid arthritis is a bewilderingly complex disease involving the interactions of many, and varied, cell populations and multiple families of low and high molecular mass mediators. We are only slowly beginning to understand the mechanisms that produce the local and systematic pathology clinically recognized as rheumatoid arthritis. Increasingly, use is being made of experimental models of this disease in an effort to test hypotheses about putative pathological mechanisms and to investigate the effect of novel therapeutic agents. A major section of this book covers these experimental models in great detail from their development through to reviews of the most recent information on each model. Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis brings together a group of eminent researchers from the fields of clinical rheumatology, pathology, experimental pathology, immunology, connective tissue biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology and developmental biology to describe the current views of the cellular and humoral mechanisms that drive the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis and experimental models of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1103 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-340440-4 (9780123404404)
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Content
Part 1 Cellular mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis: histopathology of rheumatoid joint, T. Freemont; pannus, D. Hamerman; synovial cells, B. Henderson and J. Edwards; chrondrocytes, R. Poole; bone cells and bone remodelling in rheumatoid arthritis, M. Gowen; t lymphocyte/macrophage interactions, L. Klareskog; leukocyte adhesion and leukocyte traffic in rheumatoid arthritis, D. Haskard. Part 2 Humoral mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis: inflammatory cytokines including the IL-8 supergene family, S. Kunkel; cytokine inhibitors, B. Thompson; growth factors, R. Wilder; lipid mediators, G. Higgs; oxidants/free radicals, B. Halliwell; neuropeptides, J. Levine; proteases and connective tissue breakdown, J. Reynolds. Part 3 Animal models of rheumatoid arthritis: role of animal models in the study of rheumatoid arthritis - a general review, D. Willoughby; immunogenetics of animal models of rheumatoid arthritis, P. Woolley; adjuvant arthritis - the first model?, M. Billingham; arthritis induced by bacteria and viruses, B. Cole; streptococcal cell wall arthritis, J. Schwab; collagen-induced arthritis, D. Trentham; antigen-induced arthritis in rodents, W. Van den Berg; antigen-induced arthritis in the rabbit, R. Pettipher and B. Henderson. Part 4 Animal models of rheumatoid arthritis: spontaneous arthritis models, S. Gay; cytokine-induced arthritis, I. Otterness; animal models and anti-rheumatic drug development, R. Griffiths.