Abstract
The Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a polyarthritis autoimmune that results in a chronic systemic inflammation affecting synovial joints such as the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) and being the pain the main complaint of patients. A previous study (FAPESP # 2011/18951-6) demonstrated that the RA induced experimentally in rat's TMJ causes a persistent hypernociception linked to the formation a…