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SUBMITTER: Soderstrom K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2919936 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Söderström Kalle K Stein Emily E Colmenero Paula P Purath Ulrich U Müller-Ladner Ulf U de Matos Cristina Teixeira CT Tarner Ingo H IH Robinson William H WH Engleman Edgar G EG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100706 29
Osteoclasts are bone-eroding cells that develop from monocytic precursor cells in the presence of receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF). Osteoclasts are essential for physiological bone remodeling, but localized excessive osteoclast activity is responsible for the periarticular bone destruction that characteristically occurs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The origin of osteoclasts at sites of bone erosion in RA is unknown. Na ...[more]