Article
Pannocytes: distinctive cells found in rheumatoid arthritis articular cartilage erosions.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Mar 1997
Zvaifler N J, Tsai V, Alsalameh S, von Kempis J, Firestein G S, Lotz M
Abstract excerpt
A distinctive cell was identified from sites of rheumatoid arthritis cartilage injury. Similar cells are not found in lesions of osteoarthritis cartilage. We have designated them as pannocytes (PCs). Their rhomboid morphology differs from the bipolar shape of fibroblast-like synoviocytes or the s...
Topics
- Antigens, Surface
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Cartilage, Articular
- Cell Division
- Cell Membrane
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagenases
- Cytoplasm
- Fibroblasts
- Genotype
- Humans
- Microscopy, Electron
