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It has recently been shown that, in comparison with female RA patients, male RA patients tended to develop erosions earlier in the disease course [ 30].
01), the anti-Sa-positive RA patients had a higher frequency of erosions that the rest of the RA patients (60% versus 33%; P =0.
In contrast, this is not the case for MMP-1, because no blood cell carries a preformed secretory granule of this enzyme and this may explain why MMP-1 levels relate more closely to radiographic erosions.
In conclusion, we have provided evidence that active MMP-2 complexes are detectable in the inflamed RA synovium and may be involved in the development of early bony erosions.
Although the pathologic processes that underlie the development of erosions are incompletely understood, a considerable body of evidence has suggested that a pannus of cells that originate in chronically inflamed, proliferative synovial tissue becomes locally invasive, and enzymatically degrades the matrix of the articular cartilage and periarticular bone [ 4].