Annals ofRheumatoid Arthritis

Volume: 2 - Number: 15 - September 15, 2004

Outstanding

Extracellular mitochondrial DNA and oxidatively damaged DNA in synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Etanercept versus etanercept plus methotrexate: a registry-based study suggesting that the combination is clinically more efficacious

Autoantibody profile in rheumatoid arthritis during long-term infliximab treatment

An association between the acute phase response and patterns of antigen induced T cell proliferation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Prevalence, clinical relevance and characterization of circulating cytotoxic CD4+CD28- T cells in ankylosing spondylitis

Anti-prothrombin antibodies

Paratope diversity of anti-prothrombin antibodies

Behcet`s diseases

V?9/V?2 T lymphocytes in Italian patients with Behçet`s disease: evidence for expansion, and tumour necrosis factor receptor II and interleukin-12 receptor ?1 expression in active disease

Chondrocytes

The triterpenoid CDDO inhibits expression of matrix metalloproteinase-1, matrix metalloproteinase-13 and Bcl-3 in primary human chondrocytes

Drugs development

Equipoise, design bias, and randomized controlled trials: the elusive ethics of new drug development

Experimental Arthritis

Quantitative biomarker analysis of synovial gene expression by real-time PCR

Differential gene expression in pristane-induced arthritis susceptible DA versus resistant E3 rats

Treatment with recombinant interferon-? reduces inflammation and slows cartilage destruction in the collagen-induced arthritis model of rheumatoid arthritis

Delayed resolution of acute inflammation during zymosan-induced arthritis in leptin-deficient mice

Effect of phospholipase A2 inhibitory peptide on inflammatory arthritis in a TNF transgenic mouse model: a time-course ultrastructural study

CD14 mediates the innate immune responses to arthritopathogenic peptidoglycan–polysaccharide complexes of Gram-positive bacterial cell walls

Fibromyalgia

Cortisol and hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis hormones in follicular-phase women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and effect of depressive symptoms on these hormones

Immunogenetic

A comparative study of the inhibitory effects of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist following administration as a recombinant protein or by gene transfer

Inflammation

Mactinin: a modulator of the monocyte response to inflammation

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis

An association between the acute phase response and patterns of antigen induced T cell proliferation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Research article

Regulation and localization of endogenous human tristetraprolin

DEK binding to class II MHC Y-box sequences is gene- and allele-specific

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Extracellular mitochondrial DNA and oxidatively damaged DNA in synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

High CXCR3 expression in synovial mast cells associated with CXCL9 and CXCL10 expression in inflammatory synovial tissues of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells towards T helper 2 cells is not impaired in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Impact of VIP and cAMP on the regulation of TNF-? and IL-10 production: implications for rheumatoid arthritis

Electrophoretic characterization of species of fibronectin bearing sequences from the N-terminal heparin-binding domain in synovial fluid samples from patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Etanercept versus etanercept plus methotrexate: a registry-based study suggesting that the combination is clinically more efficacious

Autoantibody profile in rheumatoid arthritis during long-term infliximab treatment

Rheumatoid arthritis – class prediction by autoreactivity profiles

Investigation of the reactivity patterns of antifilaggrin antibodies in sera and synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis using citrullinated synthetic peptides

Analysis of the peptidylarginine deiminase V gene in rheumatoid arthritis

Subclass distribution of IgG autoantibodies to deiminated fibrinogen in rheumatoid arthritis

Peptidylarginine deiminase isoforms expressed in the synovial membrane of rheumatoid arthritis patients