Abstracts tagged "neuropeptides"

Abstract Number: 223 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Correlation Between Heart Rate Variability Parameters and Circulating Neuropeptides in Fibromyalgia
Laura Aline Martínez-Martínez¹, Claudia Lerma Gonzalez ², María del Carmen Navarro Gonzalez ³, Oscar Infante Vázquez ⁴, Felipe Israel López Trejo ⁵, Evelyn Aranda Cano ⁵, Alfonso Salgado Aguayo ³, Daniel Paz Gómez ³, María Isabel Barrera Villalpando ⁶, Luis Silveira ⁷, Violeta Higuera Ortiz ⁸, Angélica Vargas Guerrero ⁵ and Manuel Martínez-Lavín ⁹, ¹Departamento de Reumatologia del Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Departamento de Instrumentación del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Laboratorio de Investigación en Enfermedades Reumáticas del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Departamento de Instrumentación del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico Ciity, Mexico, ⁵Departamento de Reumatología del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁷Departamento de Reumatología, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología "Ignacio Chávez", Ciudad de México, México., Mexico, Mexico, ⁸Hospital General de Zona y Medicina Familiar 8 del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁹Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Heart rate variability analyses in fibromyalgia patients have shown changes consistent with sympathetic hyperactivity that theoretically could lead to chronic pain. There is little…
Abstract Number: 2229 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
The Effect of Intra-Articular Neurotoxin on Arthritis Pain and Substance P Expression in the Dorsal Root Ganglion: Results from Murine Arthritis Models
Hollis Krug^1,2, Sandra Frizelle³, Nicole Blanshan⁴, Christopher W. Dorman³ and Maren Mahowald^2,5, ¹Medicine, Minneapolis VAHCS, Minneapolis, MN, ²Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, ³Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Research, Minneapolis VAHCS, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Rheumatology/ Dept of Medicine, Minneapolis VA and Univ MN Med School, SAINT PAUL, MN
Background/Purpose : Substance P (SP) release and binding to NK-1 produces pain transmission. Neurotoxins (NT) that prevent release of SP, such as onabotulinum toxin (BoNT/A),…
Abstract Number: 1321 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Serum Levels As a Marker Of Prognosis In Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rosario Garcia-Vicuña¹, Ana M. Ortiz², Iria Valino-Seoane³, Amalia Lamana¹, Javier Leceta³, Yasmina Juarranz³, Isidoro González-Alvaro², Rosa P Gomariz³ and Carmen Martinez-Mora⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa. IIS La Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ³Cellular Biology, School of Biology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Cellular Biology, School of Medicine. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: The current shift to earlier treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has a major unmet need in the availability of biomarkers to identify patients requiring more…