April 2013

Welcome from the President and Congress Chairs
• Linda Sandell,
• Francisco Blanco,
• Rita Kandel
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OARSI Board of Directors 2013
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2013 OARSI World Congress Planning Committee
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Pre-Congress Workshop
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2013 OARSI World Congress Program
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Abstracts from Invited Speakers

Integrative medicine and it's role in the management of osteoarthritis
• A. Perlman
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Mechanisms of endochondral ossification in the pathogenesis of OA
• V. Rosen
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The role of biomechanics in osteoarthritis
• T.P. Andriacchi
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The role of primary cilia in cartilage health and disease
• M.M. Knight
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Role of Tai Chi in osteoarthritis
• C. Wang
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Development of articular cartilage
• M. Pacifici
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Clinical proteomics
• P. Fernandez-Puente
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Progress and pitfalls in the functional analysis of OA susceptibility alleles
• R.J. Lories,
• F. Cornelis,
• S. Thysen,
• F. Cailotto
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New clinical treatments
• X. Chevalier Sr.
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A stem cell-based approach to cartilage repair
• K.A. Johnson
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Surgical aspects of OA (meniscus)
• M. Englund
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Autophagy in the pathogenesis of aging-related OA
• B. Caramés
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Optimal combinations of scaffolds and growth factors for tissue engineering of cartilage
• K. Hoshi
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Proteomics as a tool for studying osteoarthritis
• D. de Seny
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Rehabilitation for cartilage defect in early knee OA
• M. Risberg
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Role of complement and inflammation in osteoarthritis
• W. Robinson
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Syndecan-4: environmental sensor and matrix regulator
• M.R. Morgan
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Femoral shape and impingement
• H. Weinans
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Hedgehog signaling in osteoarthritis
• B. Alman
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We should treat pain!
• M.C. Hochberg
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Mouse models of joint disorders
• M.J. Hilton
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Creating conditional knockout mice for OA research
• P.J. Roughley
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Impact of injury on joint structure
• R.B. Frobell
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Emerging paradigm: roles of inflammation in OA
• R. Terkeltaub
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Osteoarthritis year in review: rehabilitation
• A.M. Davis,
• C. MacKay
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Year in review: biology of OA
• R.F. Loeser
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Osteoarthritis year 2013 in review: genetics and genomics
• A. Gonzalez
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Osteoarthritis year 2013 in review: biomarkers; are we making steps ahead?
• F. Lafeber,
• E. Van Spil
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Osteoarthritis year in review: imaging
• T.J. Mosher
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Oral Presentations

Transcriptomic signatures in cartilage ageing
• M.J. Peffers,
• S.R. Tew,
• P.D. Clegg
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Circulating levels of MMP-mediated connective tissue destruction is predictive of structural progression in patients with inflammatory arthritis
• A.-S. Siebuhr,
• A.-C. Bay-Jensen,
• D.J. Leeming,
• ...
• C. Christiansen,
• D. van der Heijde,
• M. Karsdal;
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The relationship between pre-surgical intra-articular injection and risk for early revision and infection following total hip arthroplasty
• B. Ravi,
• R. Croxford,
• S. Hollands,
• G.A. Hawker
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T2 texture index of cartilage can predict early symptomatic OA progression: data from the osteoarthritis initiative
• K.L. Urish,
• M.G. Keffalas,
• J.R. Durkin,
• D.J. Miller,
• C.R. Chu,
• T.J. Mosher
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Quality of life and radiographic severity of knee osteoarthritis predict total knee arthroplasty: data from the osteoarthritis initiative
• M.C. Hochberg,
• K. Favors,
• J.D. Sorkin
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The canonical Wnt pathway is predominantly activated in bone in osteoarthritis
• T. Funck-Brentano,
• W. Bouaziz,
• V. Geoffroy,
• ...
• C. Marty,
• E. Hay,
• M.E. Cohen-Solal
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Impaired fracture healing by highly selective COX-2 inhibition
• M.P. Janssen,
• M.M. Caron,
• B. van Rietbergen,
• T.J. Welting,
• P.J. Emans
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Direct assessment of articular cartilage and underlying subchondral bone reveals a progressive gene expression change in human osteoarthritic knees
• C.-H. Chou,
• C.-H. Lee,
• L.-S. Lu,
• ...
• V.B. Kraus,
• C.-C. Wu,
• M.-T.M. Lee
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RNase MRP is a novel regulator of endochondral ossification
• M.M. Caron,
• M. Steinbusch,
• K. Reicherter,
• ...
• E. Lausch,
• B. Zabel,
• T.J. Welting
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Mice with global deletion of mitogen inducible gene 6 display rapid and severe cartilage and subchondral bone damage after ligament and meniscus injury
• D.M. Joiner,
• K.D. Less,
• E. VanWieren,
• B.O. Williams
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NF-κB family member RELA/p65 in chondrocytes controls skeletal growth and osteoarthritis development by inhibiting chondrocyte apoptosis
• H. Kobayashi,
• M. Hirata,
• T. Saito,
• ...
• Y. Hosaka,
• U.-I. Chung,
• H. Kawaguchi
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Systemic biochemical markers of joint metabolism and inflammation in relation to radiographic parameters and pain of the knee: data from check, a cohort of early osteoarthritis
• W.E. van Spil,
• S.C. Nair,
• M.B. Kinds,
• P.M. Welsing,
• F.P. Lafeber
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Kartogenin promotes mouse embryo limb joint formation and skeletal growth
• R.S. Decker,
• S. Zhu,
• P.G. Schultz,
• M. Pacifici
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IL-1β and TNF-α regulate the global hydroxymethylation of genomic DNA by modulating the expression and activity of TET-1 in human OA chondrocytes
• A. Haseeb,
• T.M. Haqqi
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Visfatin/NAMPT in osteoarthritis: a pro-inflammatory adipokine involved in synovium-cartilage and synovium-bone communications
• M.-C. Laiguillon,
• C. Bougault,
• M. Gosset,
• ...
• X. Houard,
• F. Berenbaum,
• J. Sellam
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Different patterns of synovitis as seen on CE-MRI in patients with knee osteoarthritis
• B. de Lange-Brokaar,
• A. Ioan-Facsinay,
• E. Yusuf,
• ...
• R. Nelissen,
• T. Huizinga,
• M. Kloppenburg
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