Abstracts tagged "Angiotensin and rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 1324 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Angiotensin II Type I Receptor Deficiency Exacerbates Erosive Bone Destruction of hTNF-Transgenic Arthritis Mice
Takafumi Mito¹, Tomoyuki Mukai¹, Shunichi Fujita¹, Shoko Kodama¹, Akiko Nagasu¹, Teruki Sone² and Yoshitaka Morita¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan, ²Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Background/Purpose: Angiotensin II (Ang II) is known to function on various organs including kidneys, adrenal glands as well as the nervous and cardiovascular systems through…