Blood Clotting Protein (Fibrin) Linked To Rheumatoid Arthritis – Study at Cincinnati Children’s
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have issued the first study showing a link between a blood clotting protein (fibrin) and rheumatoid arthritis. This study, supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the Arthritis Foundation, could lead to new therapies for this disabling disease.
Jay Degen, Ph.D., a researcher in Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children’s and the study’s lead author, said inflammatory joint disease appears to be driven by the engagement of inflammatory cells with fibrin matrices through a specific integrin receptor, aMB2. “Our study establishes that fibrin is a powerful, although context-dependent, determinant of inflammatory joint disease,” said Jay Degen.
“These findings also suggest that pharmacologically interrupting the interaction of fibrin and aMB2 might be efficacious in the treatment of arthritic disease as well as many other inflammatory diseases, such as multiple sclerosis.” said Degen.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease in which various joints in the body are inflamed, leading to swelling, pain, stiffness, loss of cartilage and bone and ultimately the possible loss of function. This debilitating disease affects 2.1 million people living in the U.S. Fibrin deposits are a prominent feature of arthritic joints and the protein appears to be a link between systems that control inflammation and bleeding within joints.
Dr. Degen and the research team are continuing their research to determine more definitively how the interruption of fibrin and aMb2 might translate into potential therapeutic treatment for patients. This research is published in the November issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The Journal of Clinical Investigation www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/117/11/3224
Information of Rheumatoid Arthritis from Health Central
www.healthcentral.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/causes-000048_1-145.html
Arthritis is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body.Arthritis is one of the leading cause of disability in people over the age of 55.There are many different forms of arthritis,each of which has a different cause.Osteoarthritis,rheumatoid arthritis,psoriatic arthritis,Septic arthritis and Gouty arthritis are some of the different forms of arthritis.
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