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Rheumatoid Arthritis - Other Perspectives towards Better Practice sheds light on the disease process of rheumatoid arthritis as well as the disease's related comorbidities. Chapters cover such topics as immune-pathogenic theories, classification criteria, available composite measures of disease assessment, and latest available therapeutic approaches.
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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
Rheumatoid arthritis --- Rheumatoid arthritis. --- Animal models.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease generating joint pain and damage in which inflammation plays a major role. RA joints are inflamed and stiff. Symptoms include joint swelling and warmth causing fatigue affecting life's health-related quality. Still, there are many other medical conditions that can also be associated with your symptoms and signs. This book is not a substitute for a diagnosis from a healthcare provider. Yet, understanding your symptoms and signs and educating yourself about health conditions is important and can contribute to having the healthiest possible life. Herein, Professor Hechmi Toumi offers an edited volume with detailed new information on RA pathogenesis and explains both approaches and treatment options: recent clinical research and traditional methods.
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
rheumatoid arthritis --- synoviocyte --- inflammation --- aggressor --- immunomodulatory functions
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In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of diseases with the inflammatory component such as such as allergy, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowl disease (IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), chronic sinusitis, and many other conditions. The majority of these diseases are multifactorial, with the contribution of genetic and environmental factors. Among the latter, the role of certain microorganisms and viruses in triggering or sustaining the inflammatory process is most controversial. In rheumatoid arthritis, for example, the following bacteria and viruses have been implicated in triggering the disease: Mycoplasma spp., Proteus mirabilis, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus spp., Bordetella spp., Acinetobacter spp., the parvoviruses, Epstein-Barr virus, and retroviruses. The list of putative microbial triggers of rheumatoid arthritis is still growing, and it becomes essentially impossible to make a causation link between certain infectious agents and the disease. In the light of these disappointing results there are calls for even larger studies with the use of more advanced and large-scale technologies. The primary function of the immune system is the maintenance of body homeostasis and protection against any threats to it via several lines of elaborate and complex immune defense. Given even higher complexity that involves the microbiota and the corresponding host-microbe interaction, the conditions for this equilibrium become even more challenging. In the absence of a defined pathogen, for example, the spectrum of microorganisms involved in triggering inappropriate immune responses may include polymicrobial communities or the cumulative effect of several microbial/viral factors. Under the normal circumstances there is a fine-tuned balance between commensal microbiota and the host’s immune responses. However, when this balance is compromised, for example in IBD, a massive immune response is launched against commensal microbiota resulting in chronic inflammation. Besides the microbial/viral factors, the balance of the immune system can be compromised by other causes. Given, for example, the close and inclusive interaction of the immune, nervous and endocrine systems, the list of these provoking factors can expand even more. For instance, it has been demonstrated that even mild sleep deprivation may increase the production of interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein. Understanding the complex role of microbial and environmental factors in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, therefore, is the main subject of this topic.
environment --- Autoimmune ecology --- Silica exposure --- Rheumatoid arthritis --- Viruses --- Bacteria
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"In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often confused and driven self she had been shaped into and finds beauty in the small roles she performed. When, inevitably, Nicholson moved on from dancing, severed from her first love by illness, she discovered that she retained the lyricism and narrative of ballet itself as she negotiated life with rheumatoid arthritis. An intentionally fractured memoir-in-essays, Fierce and Delicate navigates traditional geographies-South Florida, Northern Michigan, New York City, Milwaukee, West Virginia-and also geographies of the body. It is a book about the world of professional dance and also about living with chronic disease, about being shattered yet realizing the power to assemble oneself again, in a new way"--
Rheumatoid arthritis --- Ballet dancers --- Patients --- Nicholson, Renee K. --- United States.
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This text offers an inspiring, scientifically based game-plan for minimizing the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, ultimately focusing on achieving optimal health. It is a resource for both practical strategies and emotional support.
Rheumatoid arthritis --- Arthritis --- Adjuvant arthritis --- Arthritis deformans --- Arthrosis deformans --- Rheumatic gout --- Autoimmune diseases --- Blood hyperviscosity syndrome --- Rheumatism --- Rheumatoid arthritis.
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Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis is a high-quality educational initiative, written by leaders in the field of rheumatology, containing a collection of approximately 150 relevant images, with extended descriptive captions and a comprehensive bibliography. The Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis will provide clinicians with a visual guide to rheumatoid arthritis, focusing on assessment, diagnosis and treatment, including newer research into the signalling pathways involved in the pathogenesis of RA, before focusing on the treatment of RA. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common and most serious of the inflammatory arthritic disorders, and it dominates clinical rheumatological practice. Effective, early treatment is vital as this can slow the course of the disease and reduce joint damage. RA is usually treated using disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), most commonly methotrexate. The newest treatments target the disease-causing immune elements specifically and directly.
Medicine & Public Health. --- Rheumatology. --- Medicine. --- Médecine --- Rhumatologie --- Rheumatoid arthritis -- Diagnosis. --- Rheumatoid arthritis -- Treatment. --- Rheumatoid arthritis. --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Musculoskeletal System Diseases --- Rheumatoid arthritis --- Joints --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Articulations (Anatomy) --- Diarthrodial joints --- Synovial joints --- Adjuvant arthritis --- Arthritis deformans --- Arthrosis deformans --- Rheumatic gout --- Musculoskeletal system --- Arthritis --- Autoimmune diseases --- Blood hyperviscosity syndrome --- Rheumatism --- Internal medicine --- Connective tissues --- Diseases
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Rheumatology --- Arthritis, Rheumatoid. --- Rheumatology. --- Rheumatoid Arthritis --- Internal medicine --- Connective tissues --- Joints --- Diseases
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Sjogren's syndrome. --- Gougerot-Sjogren's syndrome --- Sicca syndrome --- Keratoconjunctivitis sicca --- Rheumatoid arthritis --- Salivary glands --- Diseases
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