Building the synovium cadherin-11 mediates fibroblast-like synoviocyte cell-to-cell adhesion.docVIP

Available online /content/7/2/49 Commentary Building the synovium: cadherin-11 mediates fibroblast-like synoviocyte cell-to-cell adhesion Hans P Kiener and Michael B Brenner Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Corresponding author: Michael B Brenner, mbrenner@ Published: 12 January 2005 Arthritis Res Ther 2005, 7:49-54 (DOI 10.1186/ar1495) ? 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract cadherin [4]. Importantly, each cadherin typically binds to another cadherin of the same type (E-E, P-P, N-N). Cadherins are compos