Watanabe, Hirofumi
Mokuda, Sho http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8529-1016
Tokunaga, Tadahiro
Kohno, Hiroki
Ishitoku, Michinori
Araki, Kei
Sugimoto, Tomohiro
Yoshida, Yusuke
Yamamoto, Toshihiro
Matsumoto, Mayuko
Masumoto, Junya
Hirata, Shintaro
Sugiyama, Eiji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan College of Rheumatology Grant for Promoting Research for Early RA (N/A)
JSPS KAKENHI (17H04656, 19K18499, 22K08599)
Mitsubishi Foundation (N/A)
Takeda Science Foundation (N/A)
Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research (N/A)
Japanese Respiratory Foundation (N/A)
Japan Rheumatism Foundation (N/A)
Nakatomi Foundation (N/A)
Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research (N/A)
Tsuchiya Memorial Medical Foundation (N/A)
Article History
Received: 7 September 2022
Accepted: 19 December 2022
First Online: 6 January 2023
Ethics declarations
:
: The present study was approved by the Clinical Ethics Committees of Hiroshima University Hospital and Dohgo Spa Hospital (approval number: E-668; approval date: 01/02/2017). The methods were performed in accordance with the approved guidelines. After obtaining written informed consent, synovial tissues were collected from patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and those with RA, who fulfilled the classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology 1987 and underwent total joint replacement or synovectomy.
: All agreed to publish this article.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.