Abstracts tagged "mechanisms and monoclonal antibodies"

Abstract Number: 2020 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Metabolic Changes Induced by Anti-Malondialdehyde Antibodies Promote Osteoclast Development
Koji Sakurabas¹, Akilan Krishnamurthy ², Cheng Xu ³, Khaled Amara ⁴, Vivianne Malmström ⁴, Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina ³, Caroline Grönwall ⁴, Bence Rethi ⁵ and Anca Catrina ⁶, ¹Rheumatology unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Solna, stockholm, Sweden, ²Rheumatology unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Stockholm, ³Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden., Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Rheumatology unit Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, ⁶Rheumatology unit Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Malondialdehyde (MDA) is highly reactive compound produced by lipid-peroxidation in situations associated with oxidative stress. MDA can irreversibly modify proteins (e.g. lysine, arginine and histidine…