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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

● Symptoms and Causes

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart and blood vessels.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. Normally, immune system helps protect body from infection and disease. In rheumatoid arthritis, immune system attacks healthy tissue in joints. It can also cause medical problems with heart, lungs, nerves, eyes and skin.

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Emily Rose-Parfitt & Fang En Sin. Rheumatoid arthritis: management. 14 November 2023.

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●Collagen Induced Arthritis Model

【Mechanism】Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is an experimental autoimmune disease that can be elicited in susceptible strains of rodents (rat and mouse) and nonhuman primates by immunization with type II collagen (CII), the major constituent protein of articular cartilage. Following immunization, these animals develop an autoimmune polyarthritis that shares several clinical and histological features with rheumatoid arthritis.

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