کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6114744 1214381 2014 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Vagus nerve stimulation: A new bioelectronics approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis?
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تحریک عصب واگ: روش جدید بیوالکترونیک برای درمان آرتریت روماتوئید؟
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی ایمونولوژی، آلرژی و روماتولوژی
چکیده انگلیسی
There has been a marked improvement in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but most patients do not achieve disease remission. Therefore, there is still a need for new treatments. By screening an adenoviral short hairpin RNA library, we discovered that knockdown of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor type 7 (α7nAChR) in RA fibroblast-like synoviocytes results in an increased production of mediators of inflammation and degradation. The α7nAChR is intimately involved in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway (CAP). This led us to study the effects of α7nAChR activation in an animal model of RA, and we could show that this resulted in reduced arthritis activity. Accordingly, stimulation of the CAP by vagus nerve stimulation improved experimental arthritis. Conversely, we found aggravation of arthritis activity after unilateral cervical vagotomy as well as in α7nAChR-knockout mice. Together, these data provided the basis for exploration of vagus nerve stimulation in RA patients as a novel anti-inflammatory approach.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology - Volume 28, Issue 4, August 2014, Pages 625-635
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