... cartilage and bone in the affected joints. Synovial hyperplasia is a hallmark pathology of RA, and fibroblast-like synovio-cytes (FLS) play a critical role in RA pathogenesis byproducing pro-inflammatory ... Bucciarelli LG, Wendt T, Sakaguchi T, Lalla E, Qu W, Lu Y, Lee L,Stern DM, Naka Y, Ramasamy R, Yan SD, Yan SF, D’Agati V, Schmidt AM:Blockade of receptor for advanced glycation endproducts: a ... pro-inflammatoryloop and sustain the inflammatory response. In ourstudy, IL-17 was a strong inducer of RAGE in RA-FLS.IL-17 exerts an important role in inflam mato ry diseasesboth directly and...