Abstracts tagged "drug treatment and mouse model"

Abstract Number: 3082 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Nanogel Based Delivery of an Inhibitor of Calcium/ Calmodulin- Dependent Protein Kinase 4 Suppresses Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis and Lupus-like Disease in Mice
Kotaro Otomo¹, Tomohiro Koga², Nobuya Yoshida³, Masayuki Mizui⁴, Christina Kriegel⁵, Tarek Fahmy⁶ and George C. Tsokos³, ¹Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Department of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ⁵Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Heaven, CT, ⁶Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Heaven, CT
Background/Purpose: Treatment of autoimmune diseases is still based on the use of general immunosuppressive drugs which invariably cause severe side effects. This fact has compelled…