Taking Stock To take a more common example, among the nearly 50 million Americans with arthritis, "progression of the disease can sometimes be slow," and "many patients are not aware of the impact their arthritis has had upon important dimensions of their lives," Kevin Fontaine, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, wrote on the university's Arthritis Center Web site.
Fuchs et al. [24] reported that implants preserving both the cruciate ligaments can achieve functional results at least similar to TKR without any arthritis progression.
Several evidences have involved a wide array of cytokines and chemokines in joint inflammation and the arthritis progression [1], [3], [19].
The area under the curve (AUC) represents arthritis progression.
Therefore, GM-CSF plays a role throughout the arthritis progression in this model.
Arthritis progression was monitored using a micrometer to measure changes in knee joint swelling.
Arthritis progression significantly increased paw swelling and ankle and vertebral BMD loss.
Our studies clearly show that deletion of MMP-13 attenuates arthritis progression in mice.
IL-1ra treatment, however, showed a lower suppression of arthritis progression compared with the fusion protein.
On day 13, the persisting low grade arthritis progression could not be demonstrated by Gd.
When used in a murine model of arthritis, the two proteins inhibited arthritis progression.
