Araki, Kei
Mokuda, Sho
Kohno, Hiroki
Oka, Naoya
Watanabe, Hirofumi
Ishitoku, Michinori
Sugimoto, Tomohiro
Yoshida, Yusuke
Masumoto, Junya
Hirata, Shintaro
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (22K08599)
JSPS KAKENHI (23K27635)
JSPS KAKENHI (24K18642)
Takeda Science Foundation
Nakatomi Foundation
Tsuchiya Memorial Medical Foundation
Rotary Club of Hiroshima
Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research
Article History
Received: 28 November 2024
Accepted: 16 May 2025
First Online: 3 June 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the clinical ethics committees of Hiroshima University Hospital, Dohgo Spa Hospital, Ehime University Proteo-Science Center, and Graduate School of Medicine, and was conducted at these institutions (approval number: E-668; approval date: 01/02/2017). Synovial tissues were collected from patients with both OA and RA who fulfilled the classification criteria of the 1987 American College of Rheumatology and underwent total joint replacement after providing informed consent.