arthritis The term used to refer to a variety of inflammatory or degenerative diseases that damage joints. Acute forms are commonly caused by bacterial invasion. Examples of arthritis (not of acute forms) include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gouty arthritis. ...
Cytotoxic agents may also be used; these drugs act as immunosuppressants and block the inflammatory process of the disease. methotrexate is the most common of these. The dosage for the management of rheumatoid arthritis is much lower than the dosages for malignancies; thus the associated side ...
Phillips RM Jr, Sulser RE, Songcharoen S (1980) Inflammatory arthritis and subcutaneous fat necrosis associated with acute and chronic pancreatitis. Arthritis Rheumatism 23: 355–360Phillips RM Jr, Sulser RE, Songcharoen S (1980) Inflammatory arthritis and subcutaneous fat necrosis associated with ...
To determine whether chronic inflammatory arthritis may respond to antibiotic therapy (implying a bacterial origin), we conducted a placebo-controlled, double-blind study. Sixty patients with inflammatory arthritis and antibody titers to Borrelia burgdorferi 1:64 or more were randomized to receive placebo...
(a lipid-soluble thiamine derivative) to decrease pro-inflammatory cytokines, boost antioxidant responses to protect cell viability, and inactivate microglial cells in a model of neuroinflammation.High-dose thiamine has been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects in numerous studies (hereandhere). ...
E. (1994) Cysteine proteinase inhibitors decrease articular cartilage and bone destruction in chronic inflammatory arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2 , 236–47.Esser RE, Angelo RA, Murphey MD, Watts LM, Thornburg LP, Palmer JT, Talhouk JW, Smith RE: Cysteine proteinase inhibitors decrease articular ...
The relationship between periodontitis and other inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis have been dealt with in some studies. Instead of their different etiology, similar mechanism of tissue destruction has been described in this article. 展开 ...
Infections in children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease treated with tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitors: ... Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors are increasingly administered to children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) an...
B cells exert their pathogenic action in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) locally in the synovium. This study was undertaken to elucidate the chemokines responsible for the recruitment of B cells in the inflamed synovium, taking into account that the rich chemokine milieu present in the synovial tissue ca...
Studies have also shown that depression and anxiety are risk factors for poor sleep quality among older people [12]. However, a retrospective study conducted in China showed that poor sleep quality predisposes to the occurrence of severe inflammatory bowel disease [32]. Our own study did not ass...