Abstracts tagged "mesenchymal stem cells and spondylarthropathy"

Abstract Number: 2825 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Generated from Axial Spondyloarthritis Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Gerlinde Layh-Schmitt¹, Shajia Lu¹, Emily Lazowick¹, Stephen Brooks¹, Massimo Gadina¹ and Robert A. Colbert², ¹NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease associated with trabecular bone loss and concomitant aberrant bone formation in the spine. Over 40 genes…