Pain Modulation in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) - Influence of Adalimumab

Summary

The purpose of this study is to obtain increased knowledge concerning central pain and fatigue processing in rheumatoid arthritis, and how these conditions are influenced by treatment with Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) blockade with adalimumab.

Timeline

Start

2010-10

Primary completion

2016-11-28

Completion

2016-11-28

Publications

• Background Keystone EC, Kavanaugh AF, Sharp JT, Tannenbaum H, Hua Y, Teoh LS, Fischkoff SA, Chartash EK. Radiographic, clinical, and functional outcomes of treatment with adalimumab (a human anti-tumor necrosis factor monoclonal antibody) in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis receiving concomitant methotrexate therapy: a randomized, placebo-controlled, 52-week trial. Arthritis Rheum. 2004 May;50(5):1400-11. doi: 10.1002/art.20217.
• Background Weinblatt ME, Keystone EC, Furst DE, Kavanaugh AF, Chartash EK, Segurado OG. Long term efficacy and safety of adalimumab plus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: ARMADA 4 year extended study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2006 Jun;65(6):753-9. doi: 10.1136/ard.2005.044404. Epub 2005 Nov 24.
• Background Yount S, Sorensen MV, Cella D, Sengupta N, Grober J, Chartash EK. Adalimumab plus methotrexate or standard therapy is more effective than methotrexate or standard therapies alone in the treatment of fatigue in patients with active, inadequately treated rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2007 Nov-Dec;25(6):838-46.
• Background Thompson PW, Carr AJ. Pain in the rheumatic diseases. Ann Rheum Dis. 1997 Jun;56(6):395. doi: 10.1136/ard.56.6.395. No abstract available.
• Background Neumann L, Buskila D. Epidemiology of fibromyalgia. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2003 Oct;7(5):362-8. doi: 10.1007/s11916-003-0035-z.
• Background Leffler AS, Kosek E, Lerndal T, Nordmark B, Hansson P. Somatosensory perception and function of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Eur J Pain. 2002;6(2):161-76. doi: 10.1053/eujp.2001.0313.
• Background Evrengul H, Dursunoglu D, Cobankara V, Polat B, Seleci D, Kabukcu S, Kaftan A, Semiz E, Kilic M. Heart rate variability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatol Int. 2004 Jul;24(4):198-202. doi: 10.1007/s00296-003-0357-5. Epub 2003 Sep 11.
• Background Goldstein RS, Bruchfeld A, Yang L, Qureshi AR, Gallowitsch-Puerta M, Patel NB, Huston BJ, Chavan S, Rosas-Ballina M, Gregersen PK, Czura CJ, Sloan RP, Sama AE, Tracey KJ. Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway activity and High Mobility Group Box-1 (HMGB1) serum levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Mol Med. 2007 Mar-Apr;13(3-4):210-5. doi: 10.2119/2006-00108.Goldstein.
• Background Cohen H, Neumann L, Kotler M, Buskila D. Autonomic nervous system derangement in fibromyalgia syndrome and related disorders. Isr Med Assoc J. 2001 Oct;3(10):755-60.
• Background Tracey KJ. The inflammatory reflex. Nature. 2002 Dec 19-26;420(6917):853-9. doi: 10.1038/nature01321.
• Background Uceyler N, Valenza R, Stock M, Schedel R, Sprotte G, Sommer C. Reduced levels of antiinflammatory cytokines in patients with chronic widespread pain. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Aug;54(8):2656-64. doi: 10.1002/art.22026.
• Background Salemi S, Rethage J, Wollina U, Michel BA, Gay RE, Gay S, Sprott H. Detection of interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in skin of patients with fibromyalgia. J Rheumatol. 2003 Jan;30(1):146-50.
• Background Bazzichi L, Rossi A, Massimetti G, Giannaccini G, Giuliano T, De Feo F, Ciapparelli A, Dell'Osso L, Bombardieri S. Cytokine patterns in fibromyalgia and their correlation with clinical manifestations. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2007 Mar-Apr;25(2):225-30.
• Background Watkins LR, Maier SF. Immune regulation of central nervous system functions: from sickness responses to pathological pain. J Intern Med. 2005 Feb;257(2):139-55. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2004.01443.x.
• Background Milligan ED, Watkins LR. Pathological and protective roles of glia in chronic pain. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009 Jan;10(1):23-36. doi: 10.1038/nrn2533.
• Background Beattie EC, Stellwagen D, Morishita W, Bresnahan JC, Ha BK, Von Zastrow M, Beattie MS, Malenka RC. Control of synaptic strength by glial TNFalpha. Science. 2002 Mar 22;295(5563):2282-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1067859.
• Background Johnston IN, Milligan ED, Wieseler-Frank J, Frank MG, Zapata V, Campisi J, Langer S, Martin D, Green P, Fleshner M, Leinwand L, Maier SF, Watkins LR. A role for proinflammatory cytokines and fractalkine in analgesia, tolerance, and subsequent pain facilitation induced by chronic intrathecal morphine. J Neurosci. 2004 Aug 18;24(33):7353-65. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1850-04.2004.
• Background Inglis JJ, Notley CA, Essex D, Wilson AW, Feldmann M, Anand P, Williams R. Collagen-induced arthritis as a model of hyperalgesia: functional and cellular analysis of the analgesic actions of tumor necrosis factor blockade. Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Dec;56(12):4015-23. doi: 10.1002/art.23063.
• Background Baliki MN, Chialvo DR, Geha PY, Levy RM, Harden RN, Parrish TB, Apkarian AV. Chronic pain and the emotional brain: specific brain activity associated with spontaneous fluctuations of intensity of chronic back pain. J Neurosci. 2006 Nov 22;26(47):12165-73. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3576-06.2006.
• Background Kulkarni B, Bentley DE, Elliott R, Julyan PJ, Boger E, Watson A, Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Jones AK. Arthritic pain is processed in brain areas concerned with emotions and fear. Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Apr;56(4):1345-54. doi: 10.1002/art.22460.
• Background Schweinhardt P, Kalk N, Wartolowska K, Chessell I, Wordsworth P, Tracey I. Investigation into the neural correlates of emotional augmentation of clinical pain. Neuroimage. 2008 Apr 1;40(2):759-766. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.016. Epub 2007 Dec 23.
• Background Ochsner KN, Ludlow DH, Knierim K, Hanelin J, Ramachandran T, Glover GC, Mackey SC. Neural correlates of individual differences in pain-related fear and anxiety. Pain. 2006 Jan;120(1-2):69-77. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.014. Epub 2005 Dec 20.
• Background Apkarian AV, Bushnell MC, Treede RD, Zubieta JK. Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease. Eur J Pain. 2005 Aug;9(4):463-84. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2004.11.001. Epub 2005 Jan 21.
• Sandstrom A, Ellerbrock I, Lofgren M, Altawil R, Bileviciute-Ljungar I, Lampa J, Kosek E. Distinct aberrations in cerebral pain processing differentiating patients with fibromyalgia from patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Pain. 2022 Mar 1;163(3):538-547. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002387.

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