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Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) is elevated in sera and synovial fluid of patients with RA, suggesting that it may play a role in the pathology of the disease [ 4 ] . Soluble TNF-α receptor or neutralizing antibodies against TNF-α have been shown to prevent collagen-induced arthritis in mice [ 5 6 ] . Furthermore, a human TNF-α (hTNF-α) transgenic mouse (Tg197) develops a chronic, progressive polyarthritis with histologic features in common with RA [ 7 ] . Weight loss and joint swelling in these mice are correlated with expression of hTNF-α mRNA in the joints [ 7 ] and hTNF-α concentrations in the serum [ 8 9 ] . Previously, Keffer et al.
Joint swelling was scored (ranging from 0 to 4 in each paw) and expressed as acute cumulative arthritis score, resulting in a possible maximum severity score of 16.
A standard scoring system, based on swelling and redness of each paw, was used for the assessment of the severity of disease.
Interestingly, 'swelling' of the Golgi complex with vesicular staining (stage I) was observed in 10-20% of cells, and is most strikingly demonstrated in Fig.
In contrast, no reconstructed embryos developed to the blastocyst stage regardless of the maturation stage of the recipient oocytes when nocodazole-treated cells were transferred, although nuclear swelling was observed in 34.