Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Atlas de la polyarthrite rhumatoïde

Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis- Animated Videos collection

The Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis –Animated Videos collection, is a comprehensive collection of videos and images pertaining to disabling, autoimmune disease that affects the joints. The Animated Atlas is an excellent reference and an invaluable resource for effective presentations and lectures.

Focus Animated Atlas series is a collection of authentic animation videos and images covering the key mechanisms, drug interactions and treatment process of a given disease condition. Created with the expertise of internationally reputed opinion leaders, these incredible animation videos accompanied by audio make it easier to perceive and understand the cellular world, metabolism, and body functions. The animations in this application simplify the understanding of biological processes and their mechanisms of action using visual media that is particularly well suited for the science of medicine. The high quality animations take the viewer on a virtual tour of the human system through accurate visuals to effortlessly understand chronic diseases and their mechanisms of action, and management including drug interactions.

Atlas of Rheumatoid Arthritis Videos collection: is a collection of 61 animated videos with 138 corresponding images covering:

Symptoms & contributory factors

a. Rheumatoid arthritis

b. Synovial membrane

c. Joints involved in RA

d. Autoimmunity and RA

e. Stages of RA

f. Neurogenic Inflammation

g. Rheumatoid nodules

h. Genes associated with RA

i. Rheumatoid factor

j. Joint and cartilage in RA

k. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

l. Synovial fluid in RA

m. Synovial lining

n. Anemia in RA

o. Bone erosion in RA

p. Autoantigens in RA

q. Rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis pathway

r. Inflammation in RA

s. Angiogenesis

Immunopathology

a. Role of TNF alpha

b. Interleukin-1

c. Rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASFs)

d. Role of T-cells

e. Role of B-cells

f. Macrophages

g. Leukocyte homing to synovium

h. Platelets in the disease process of RA

i. Fas and RA

j. Role of interleukin-18 (IL-18) in inflammatory diseases

k. Role of chondrocytes in rheumatoid arthritis

l. Role of dendritic cells in RA

m. Role of IL-6

n. Cytokines in RA

o. Chemokines in RA

p. Neutrophil migration and action

q. Interleukin-15

r. Interleukin-17

s. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)

t. Prostaglandin E2

u. Apoptosis in RA

Therapeutic & surgical interventions

a. Monoclonal antibody to CD20 antigen

b. T cell costimulatory blockade

c. Anti-human IL-6 receptor antibody

d. Targeting oncostatin M

e. Targeting the epigenetic modifications of synovial cells

f. Gene therapy

g. Anti-Fas monoclonal antibodies

h. Recombinant human IL-1 receptor antagonist therapy

i. Cytokine blockadeArthroplasty

j. Arthroplasty

k. SynovectomyTendon repair

l. Arthrodesis (fusion)

m. TNF alpha inhibitors

n. Hip replacement

o. Arthroscopic synovectomy

p. Total knee replacement

q. Arthrocentesis

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