Abstracts tagged "nanomedicine and transcriptional regulation"

Abstract Number: 1204 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Oral Administration of Nano-Emulsion Curcumin in Mice Suppresses Inflammatory-Induced NFkB Signaling and Macrophage Migration
Nicholas A. Young¹, Michael Bruss², Mark Gardner³, William Willis³, Xiaokui Mo³, Giancarlo Valiente³, Yu Cao⁴, Zhongfa Liu⁴, Lai-Chu Wu¹ and Wael N. Jarjour⁵, ¹Immunology and Rheumatology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ²Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ³Rheumatology and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, ⁴Rheumatology and Immunology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, columbus, OH, ⁵Dept of Rheumatology/Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Background/Purpose: The major obstacles to successful use of curcumin as an anti-inflammatory agent are its low solubility in water and rapid metabolism, which both translate…