Abstracts tagged "choline and osteophyte"

Abstract Number: 1993 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Inhibition of Choline Kinase Alpha Improves Synovitis and Cartilage Damage in Animal Models of Osteoarthritis
Roxana Coras¹, Leening P Liu ², Serena Z Shi ², Anyan Cheng ³, Alexandra Stubelius ⁴, Elsa Sanchez-Lopez ⁵, Robert Sah ⁶, Ru Liu-Bryan ⁷ and Monica Guma ⁸, ¹Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, ²Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ³Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ⁴Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ⁵Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ⁶Department of Bioengineering and Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, ⁷San Diego VA/UCSD, La Jolla, CA, ⁸Department of Medicine, School of Medicine. University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease of the whole joint, affecting cartilage, ligaments, menisci, bone and synovial tissue. We previously found that choline kinase alpha…