Projects / Programmes
Role of cysteine cathepsins as immunomodulators in rheumatoid arthritis
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
1.05.00 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Biochemistry and molecular biology |
|
Code |
Science |
Field |
B000 |
Biomedical sciences |
|
Rheumatoid arthritis, immune response, chemokines, cytokines, cysteine cathepsins, macrophages
Researchers (2)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
21560 |
PhD Urška Repnik |
Microbiology and immunology |
Researcher |
2006 - 2007 |
149 |
2. |
07561 |
PhD Boris Turk |
Biochemistry and molecular biology |
Head |
2006 - 2007 |
1,037 |
Organisations (1)
no. |
Code |
Research organisation |
City |
Registration number |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
0106 |
Jožef Stefan Institute |
Ljubljana |
5051606000 |
90,664 |
Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease, which affects 0.5-1 % of adult population in the industrial world resulting in a diminished quality of life. A cellular model to study the molecular mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis progression will be established. The role of cysteine cathepsins as possible immunomodulators will be investigated in this model system, including chemokine processing. Using functional genomics analysis differentially expressed genes in rheumatoid arthritis will be identified.