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In view of the analogies between erosion formation in arthritis and tumor invasion in cancer, we hypothesized that activated MMP-2 and possibly MMP-9 might play an important role in the early stages of invasion of synovial pannus into bone and cartilage.
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].
It has been postulated that the locally invasive cells that form the aggressive pannus have acquired a transformed phenotype, and analogies to invasive cancer cells have been made [ 26].
In addition members of this subfamily of MMPs are involved in the invasiveness of cancers [ 15, 16], and thus may also play a similar role in the invasion of synovial pannus.
Although both of these MMPs are expressed at the junction between synovial pannus and cartilage or bone [ 14], further evidence of their direct role in erosion formation is lacking.