Annals ofRheumatoid Arthritis

Volume: 8 - Number: 85 - August 15, 2010

Outstanding

Association between the IRF5 rs2004640 functional polymorphism and systemic sclerosis: A new perspective for pulmonary fibrosis (p 225-233)

Association of the TRAF1/C5 locus with increased mortality, particularly from malignancy or sepsis, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (p 39-46)

Different patterns of associations with anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive and anti-citrullinated protein antibody-negative rheumatoid arthritis in the extended major histocompatibility complex region (p 30-38)

Independent association of rheumatoid arthritis with increased left ventricular mass but not with reduced ejection fraction (p 22-29)

Cartilage Biology

Blocking vascular endothelial growth factor with soluble Flt-1 improves the chondrogenic potential of mouse skeletal muscle-derived stem cells (p 155-165)

Effect of interleukin-1 on osteogenic protein 1-induced signaling in adult human articular chondrocytes (p 143-154)

Identification of the core element responsive to runt-related transcription factor 2 in the promoter of human type x collagen gene (p 166-178)

Modulation of lubricin biosynthesis and tissue surface properties following cartilage mechanical injury (p 133-142)

Cellular Biology

CTLA-4 (CD152) controls homeostasis and suppressive capacity of regulatory T cells in mice (p 123-132)

Childhood Arthritis

Association of the IL2RA/CD25 gene with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (p 251-257)

Identification of a novel susceptibility locus for juvenile idiopathic arthritis by genome-wide association analysis (p 258-263)

Editorial

Naturally acquired microchimerism: For better or for worse (p 5-7)

Experimental Arthritis

Inflammatory lesions of the spine on magnetic resonance imaging predict the development of new syndesmophytes in ankylosing spondylitis: Evidence of a relationship between inflammation and new bone formation (p 93-102)

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Clinical image: Brain perfusion single-photon-emission computed tomography findings in a patient with an asymmetric fibromyalgia syndrome (p 298)

Clinical images: Hypertension due to otherwise asymptomatic, complete aortic occlusion in Takayasu arteritis (p 312)

Clinical Images: Lumbar spondylolisthesis caused by tophaceous gout (p 198)

Clinical images: Ocular mycobacterium infection in ankylosing spondylitis (p 102)

Osteoarthritis

Differential expression of B-crystallin and evidence of its role as a mediator of matrix gene expression in osteoarthritis (p 179-188)

Rheumatoid Arthritis Basic Science Studies

Activation of synoviolin promoter in rheumatoid synovial cells by a novel transcription complex of interleukin enhancer binding factor 3 and GA binding protein (p 63-72)

Genetic association of the major histocompatibility complex with rheumatoid arthritis implicates two non-DRB1 loci (p 53-62)

Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Studies

Association of the TRAF1/C5 locus with increased mortality, particularly from malignancy or sepsis, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (p 39-46)

Different patterns of associations with anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive and anti-citrullinated protein antibody-negative rheumatoid arthritis in the extended major histocompatibility complex region (p 30-38)

Folate receptor as a potential delivery route for novel folate antagonists to macrophages in the synovial tissue of rheumatoid arthritis patients (p 12-21)

Independent association of rheumatoid arthritis with increased left ventricular mass but not with reduced ejection fraction (p 22-29)

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Association between the IRF5 rs2004640 functional polymorphism and systemic sclerosis: A new perspective for pulmonary fibrosis (p 225-233)