Healthy donors age and sex matched to the patients

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Patients that started DMARD therapy after the Baseline collection

Rheumatoid Arthritis With DMARDs

RA patients naive to TNF blockers recruited before the first administration of a TNF-blocker

Rheumatoid Arthritis Baseline for TNF-blockers

RA patients recruited at least 6 months after the start of a TNF-blocker

Rheumatoid Arthritis With TNF-blockers

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Patients with Ankylosing spondylitis naive to TNF-blockers, before the first TNF-block administration

Ankylosing Spondylitis Baseline for TNF Blocker

Ankylosing spondylitis recruited after a minimum of 6 months after the start of a TNF-blocker.

Ankylosing Spondylitis With TNF-blockers

Controls

Total

Sex: Female, Male

DAS28 for RA. 28 joints included. tender and swollen joint count (TEN28, SWO28). Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is measured. The patient makes a subjective assessment (SA) of disease activity.
DAS28 ≤ 3.2 Inactive > 3.2 but ≤ 5.1 Moderate > 5.1 Very active
ASDAS for AS. Combines five disease activity variables in one single score
ASDAS
≤ 3.1Inactive > 3.1 but ≤ 2.1 Moderate > 2.1 but ≤ 3.5 Moderate > 3.5 Very active

Disease activity

ESR (mm/hr)

CRP (mg/dl)

Symptoms duration (years)

Osteoclasts will be differentiated from untreated patients and patients under several TNF blockers.

Osteoclast Differentiation Ex-vivo

Total area resorbed by osteoclasts as percentage of total area analyzed

Osteoclast Activity Ex-vivo

Overall Study

João Eurico Fonseca

Healthy donors age and sex matched to the patients - Healthy donors were not under any therapy therefore they were not at risk and Adverse effects were not assessed.

spondylarthropathies/phosphatase

Differences in Bone Cell Activity Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

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