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01-12-2012 | Poster presentation
Fas deficiency attenuates bone loss during antigen induced arthritis in mice
Authors:
Elvira Lazic Mosler, Sania Kuzmac, Sanja Ivcevic, Danka Grcevic, Ana Marusic, Natasa Kovacic
Published in:
Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Antigen induced arthritis (AIA) is an experimental model of rheumatoid arthritis induced by methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) [
1]. Hyperplastic synovia in AIA contains fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) with reduced ability to differentiate into osteoblasts, chondroblasts or adipocytes [
2]. Since Fas is shown to inhibit osteoblast differentiation [
3], we were interested whether such inhibitory effect may contribute to the pathogenesis of AIA. …