(Photo credit: E+/Getty Images) A delicate membrane or tissue called the synovium lines each joint in your body. It connects to cartilage, the soft, spongy material at the ends of your bones that ...

These joints control the movement of your fingers. In people with RA, immune system cells attack the synovium, the lining of these joints. The synovium normally produces fluid that allows the ...

A blood test could help predict knee osteoarthritis at least eight years before the signs of the disease show up on X-rays, a ...

In RA, the body’s immune system attacks the synovium (a soft tissue lining the spaces of joints). The synovium becomes swollen and inflamed, eventually destroying cartilage and bone within the ...

The cause of onset is not completely known. There is an inflammatory response of the synovium with swelling of the synovial ...

Most cases of RA are caused by products of immune cells such as cytokines, bradykinins, or prostanoids invading the synovium—a soft tissue lining the joints—where they bind to damage-sensing ...

However, rheumatoid arthritis causes the soft tissues of the joints to stop producing synovium, or the liquid that keeps joints moving smoothly. The disease could eventually destroy both the ...

The authors tested CBD on rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASFs), a type of cell within certain connective tissue forms such as the synovium. The synovium lines a person’s joints.

Ours is the first reported case presenting clinically in the synovium of the hip joint as pigmented villonodular synovitis. Histiocytic/dendritic proliferations involving the synovial tissues are ...

I started having problems with my hands, swelling, pain, and I went to several doctors and was finally diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. So, for example, if you have it in your right hand you ...

A heel spur is a bony growth around your heel bone. You may feel pain around your foot where the heel spur grows. Most ...

Cadherins are integral transmembrane proteins that are involved in cell sorting, cell aggregation and tissue morphogenesis during embryogenesis, and postnatally, mediate cell-to-cell adhesion.