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Power Doppler ultrasound phenotyping of expanding versus collapsed popliteal lymph nodes in murine inflammatory arthritis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Bouta Echoe M, Ju Yawen, Rahimi Homaira, de Mesy-Bentley Karen L, Wood Ronald W, Xing Lianping, Schwarz Edward M
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease manifested by episodic flares in affected joints that are challenging to predict and treat. Longitudinal contrast enhanced-MRI (CE-MRI) of inflammatory arthritis in tumor necrosis factor-transgenic (TNF-Tg) mice has demonstrated that popliteal lymph nodes (PLN) increase in volume and contrast enhancement during the pre-arthritic "expanding" phase of the...
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