Abstracts tagged "Cell biology and gout"

Abstract Number: 137 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Monosodium Urate Crystals Inhibit Tenocyte Viability and Function: Implications for Periarticular Involvement in Chronic Gout
Ashika Chhana¹, Karen E. Callon¹, Bregina Pool¹, Dorit Naot¹, Gregory Gamble², Brendan Coleman³, Fiona M. McQueen⁴, Jillian Cornish¹ and Nicola Dalbeth¹, ¹Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ³Orthopedic Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁴Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Recent advanced imaging studies have demonstrated that urate deposition in periarticular structures is common in gout. Urate deposition has been observed both adjacent to…