ReviewJournal of biomedical science2021
Rheumatoid cachexia: the underappreciated role of myoblast, macrophage and fibroblast interplay in the skeletal muscle niche.
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- Comparison of Lower Extremity Muscle Deterioration in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Healthy Controls: Relationship with Disease Activity, Muscle Strength, and Walking Speed.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2026Article
- Geroscience insights into difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis: the role of unhealthy aging, comorbidity, and therapeutic complexity.GeroScience · 2026Review
- Stair-climbing resistance exercise, with or without oral turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) supplementation, relieves symptoms and promotes musculoskeletal repair in experimental rheumatoid arthritis in rats.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2026Article
- Neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio is associated with low muscle mass risk in rheumatoid arthritis: evidence from a hospital-based cohort and NHANES validation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Transcending aging: disease specificity, assessment challenges, and management strategies for rheumatoid arthritis-related sarcopenia.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Cancer-Associated Cachexia in the Era of Obesity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Bridging the tumor microenvironment: the pivotal role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in tumor cachexia development.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- A Case of Rheumatoid Arthritis Complicated by Compression of the Popliteal Artery and Tibial Nerve Due to an Organized Hematoma in the Popliteal Fossa: A Case Report and Literature Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Decoding Macrophage Dynamics: A Pathway to Understanding and Treating Inflammatory Skin Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Differential response of tissue engineered skeletal muscle from rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy controls.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of an interpretable machine learning model for predicting low muscle mass in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multicenter study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- The potential of zebrafish as drug discovery research tool in immune-mediated inflammatory disease.Inflammopharmacology · 2024Review
- Myokines: metabolic regulation in obesity and type 2 diabetes.Life metabolism · 2024Review
- Plasmodium vivax tryptophan-rich antigen reduces type I collagen secretion via the NF-κBp65 pathway in splenic fibroblasts.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
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- Autoimmunity, cancer and COVID-19 abnormally activate wound healing pathways: critical role of inflammation.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2022Review
- Lifestyle factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-a cross-sectional study on two Scandinavian cohorts.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Benefit in Rheumatoid Cachexia Illustrated Using a Novel Primary Human Triple Cell Coculture Model.International journal of inflammation · 2022Article
- Unresolved intramuscular inflammation, not diminished skeletal muscle regenerative capacity, is at the root of rheumatoid cachexia: insights from a rat CIA model.Physiological reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although rheumatoid arthritis affects 1% of the global population, the role of rheumatoid cachexia, which occurs in up to a third of patients, is relatively neglected as research focus, despite its significant contribution to decreased quality of life in patients. A better understanding of the cellular and molecular processes involved in rheumatoid cachexia, as well as its potential treatment, is dependent on elucidation of the intricate interactions of the cells involved, such as myoblasts, fibroblasts and macrophages. Persistent RA-associated inflammation results in a relative depletion of the capacity for regeneration and repair in the satellite cell niche. The repair that does proceed is suboptimal due to dysregulated communication from the other cellular role players in this multi-cellular environment. This includes the incomplete switch in macrophage phenotype resulting in a lingering pro-inflammatory state within the tissues, as well as fibroblast-associated dysregulation of the dynamic control of the extracellular matrix. Additional to this endogenous dysregulation, some treatment strategies for RA may exacerbate muscle wasting and no multi-cell investigation has been done in this context. This review summarizes the most recent literature characterising clinical RA cachexia and links these features to the roles of and complex communication between multiple cellular contributors in the muscle niche, highlighting the importance of a targeted approach to therapeutic intervention.
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