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THIS JUST IN!!! 💫 #OAC #impactfactor increases from 7.2 to 9!!!!

Welcome new Arthritis & Rheumatology Editor, S. Louis Bridges, Jr., MD, PhD! 🎉 We asked Dr. Bridges about his research background and exciting plans for his tenure at A&R

Excited to share the latest chapter of our work on fat-joint interorgan crosstalk in knee OA, featuring the role of complement factor D secreted by fat in knee pain. Link here: bit.ly/42Og5hJ Thanks to @Farsh_G @Guilak_Lab, @thehopefulscie1 @ronjune2 and all coauthors!

📢 ORS Call for Volunteers! Make an impact in #orthopaedicresearch by joining a committee, becoming a section representative, reviewing journal articles, supporting ORS events, and much more! Learn more and apply today: ors.org/volunteer/

Join us for journal club May 12th! Email to recevie a registration link, please

Calling all Disease-Modifying OA Drugs‼️ We are excited to share new work led by @Boyer_TL now published in @OACJournal on evaluating Cationic Peptide Carriers for drug delivery of DMOADs in an animal model of post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Free Access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kyZk3npMrf-…

👀 in this month's issue 🙋 Interested to learn more about the relevance and applicability of #rarevariant association studies (RVAS) in chronic pain research? Read more from Jahangiri-Esfahani et al - oarsijournal.com/action/showPdf… #genetics #UKBiobank #wholeexomesequencing

#New #OAC #March This work by Yu et al., investigates the impact of stress-induced microtubule impairment on intracellular transport and lipid droplet (LD) accumulation in chondrocytes. 🧪 🥼 🔗 buff.ly/2Zxh1CM

🎉New in April's @OACJournal Greater knee-adjacent subcutaneous fat (kaSCF) was associated with: 1⃣ thinner cartilage in men 2⃣ higher T2 in women 3⃣ reduced knee strength 4⃣ greater knee pain Read more from Joseph et al. - oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

We are thrilled to share our latest work on surface-engineered exosomes for sustained interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) delivery to cartilage via electrostatic interactions, now published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage! @OACJournal Check it out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please register to attend virtually- 1 pm CST April 7th. Dr Yvonne Lee!

"Some of the University of Utah researchers had been studying how best to care for critically ill babies in rural communities. Others were focused on reducing the disproportionately high rates of skin cancer in those same remote areas."

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… New preprint from the lab: Targeting piezo2 to treat osteoarthritis pain

Large‐Scale Plasma Proteomics to Profile Pathways and Prognosis of Chronic Pain - Li - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…