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ArticleScientific reports2020

Development of an intravital imaging system for the synovial tissue reveals the dynamics of CTLA-4 Ig in vivo.

Tetsuo Hasegawa, Junichi Kikuta, Takao Sudo, Erika Yamashita, Shigeto Seno, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Masaru Ishii

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The RANK/RANKL axis controls vascular dynamics in the bone marrow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. The ontogeny of synovial tissue macrophages.Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tetsuo HasegawaDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Junichi KikutaDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Takao SudoDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Erika YamashitaDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
Shigeto SenoDepartment of Bioinformatic Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science & Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
Tsutomu TakeuchiDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Masaru IshiiDepartment of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. mishii@icb.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
Osaka University · JPKeio University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There have been many attempts to visualize the inflamed joints using multiphoton microscopy. However, due to the hypervascular and multilayered structure of the inflamed synovium, intravital imaging of the deep synovial tissue has been difficult. Here, we established original intravital imaging systems to visualize synovial tissue and pathological osteoclasts at the pannus-bone interface using multiphoton microscopy. Combined with fluorescence-labeling of CTLA-4 Ig, a biological agent used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, we identified that CTLA-4 Ig was distributed predominantly within the inflamed synovium and bound to CX

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AbataceptAnimalsArthritis, RheumatoidBone and BonesBone ResorptionCTLA-4 AntigenFemaleIntravital MicroscopyLymphatic VesselsMacrophagesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, Inbred DBAMicroscopyMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonAbataceptCTLA-4 Antigen

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PMID32778803
PMCPMC7417741
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