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Research in the Area of Osteoarthritis Reported from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Department of Neurology

Published in Blood Weekly, February 17th, 2011

2011 FEB 17 -- New research, 'TNF-alpha in CRPS and 'normal' trauma - significant differences between tissue and serum,' is the subject of a report. "Posttraumatic TNF-alpha signaling may be one of the factors responsible for pain and hyperalgesia in complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS). In order to further specify the role of TNF-alpha we investigated tissue (skin) and serum concentrations in three different patient groups: patients with osteoarthritis and planned surgery, with acute traumatic upper limb bone fracture waiting for surgery, and with CRPS I," investigators in Mainz, Germany report.

"Thirty patients (10 in each group) were recruited. Mean...

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