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Clinical Trial Summary

Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) with a high incidence and high morbidity, the pathogenesis has not been fully elucidated. Fibroblast-like synovial cells excessive proliferation and synovial angiogenesis is the most important cause of RA synovitis and joint destruction. Our study was to find the role of Sonic Hedgehog(SHH) pathway in regulating proliferation of fibroblast-like synovial cells and modulating excess angiogenesis of synovial tissue.


Clinical Trial Description

4ml blood from active RA patients(n=35) and healthy volunteers (n=35) will be collected

- peripheral blood mononuclear cells will be detached

- messenger ribonucleic acid expression of Sonic Hedgehog pathway associated factors in both groups will be detected

Synovial tissues from 4 RA patients and 4 patients with traumatic or meniscal injury who need to carry out knee joint replacement operation will be collected

- inflammatory feature of synovial tissue will be observed

- the expression of Shh, Ptch1, Gli1 and Smo in synovial tissue will be detected by immunohistochemistry assay

- fibroblast-like synoviocytes will be cultured from synovial tissue of RA patients ;


Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT01731262
Study type Observational
Source Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
Contact Jianlin Huang, PhD
Phone 86 02085252194
Email jianlin_h@163.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 2012
Completion date January 2013

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