Abstracts tagged "osteoarthritis and serologic tests"

Abstract Number: 982 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Identification of Potential SERUM Autoantibody Biomarkers in Rheumatic Diseases Using a New Generation of Protein Arrays
Lucia Lourido¹, Juan Fernandez-Tajes¹, Valentina Calamia¹, Carolina Fernandez-Costa^1,2, Beatriz Rocha¹, Patricia Fernandez-Puente¹, Jesus Mateos¹, Carlos Fernandez-Lopez¹, Natividad Oreiro-Villar¹, Manuel Fuentes³, Francisco J. Blanco Garcia¹ and Cristina Ruiz-Romero¹, ¹Grupo de Proteomica-PBR2-ProteoRed/ISCIII-Servicio de Reumatologia. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006., A Coruña, Spain, ²Grupo de Proteomica-PBR2-ProteoRed/ISCIII-Servicio de Reumatologia. Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Sergas. Universidade da Coruña (UDC). As Xubias, 15006., A coruña, Spain, ³Centro de Investigación del Cáncer/IBMCC (USAL/CIC), IBSAL, Departamento de Medicina, Unidad de Proteomica Servicio general de Citometría, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, SPAIN., Salamanca, Spain
Background/Purpose Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by the loss of structural components from the extracelullar matrix (ECM) of articular cartilage. The progressive release of proteins from…