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[Histogenic characterization of the cells forming RA pannus].
Recenti Prog Med
January 2005
Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università di Torino.
Objective: This work aims to clarify the histogenesis of the cells forming RA pannus: the pannocytes.
Methods: 15 patients with seropositive RA; 5 controls with post-traumatic knee effusion and 5 with OA knee effusion were included in the study. Synovial tissues and fluids, collected during diagnostic arthrocentesis, were used as a source of cells to be cultured.
Pannocytes: distinctive cells found in rheumatoid arthritis articular cartilage erosions.
Am J Pathol
March 1997
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0664, USA.
A distinctive cell was identified from sites of rheumatoid arthritis cartilage injury. Similar cells are not found in lesions of osteoarthritis cartilage. We have designated them as pannocytes (PCs).
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