Abstracts tagged "autoantibodies and pain"

Abstract Number: 1017 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Novel Mechanism of Arthritis-Induced Pain: Activation of Sensory Neurons By Autoantibodies
Duygu Bas¹, Alex Bersellini Farinotti¹, Jon Sinclair², Gustaf Wigerblad³, Kutty Selva Nandakumar⁴, Rikard Holmdahl⁵, Bo Rydqvist² and Camilla Svensson³, ¹Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Joint pain is one of the main reasons for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to seek medical care. Collagen type II (CII) antibodies (Abs)…