Fibroblast activation protein (FAP), as described so far, is a type II cell surface serine protease expressed by fibroblastic cells in areas of active tissue remodelling such as tumour stroma or healing wounds. We investigated the expression of FAP by fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) and compared the synovial expression pattern in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) patients. S...

Environmental microbial communities are known to be highly diverse, often comprising hundreds and thousands of different species. Such great complexity of these populations, as well as the fastidious nature of many of the microorganisms, makes culture-based techniques both inefficient and challenging to study these communities. The analyses of such communities are best accomplished by the use o...