Nonerosive, Immune-Mediated Polyarthritis in Cats
 
Nonerosive immune-mediated polyarthritis is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the diarthroidal joints (movable joints: shoulder, knee, etc.), which occurs in multiple joints, and in which the cartilage of the joint (articular cartilage) is not eroded away. A type III hypersensitivity reaction, which causes antibodies to be bound to an antigen, in this case joint tissue, causes this condition.
 
These antibody-antigen complexes are called immune complexes, and they are deposited within the synovial membrane (where the fl ...read more