Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 5 - Number: 48 - July 15, 2006

Outstanding

Immunosuppressive treatment of chronic periaortitis: a retrospective study of 20 patients with chronic periaortitis and a review of the literature

Pregnancy in patients with rheumatic disease: anti-inflammatory cytokines increase in pregnancy and decrease post partum

Uveitis in young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a clinical evaluation of 123 patients

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: diagnostic pathway and therapeutic approach

Commentaries

The needle and the damage done

Benefit of pregnancy in inflammatory arthritis

Extended reports

Doppler ultrasound findings in healthy wrists and finger joints before and after use of two different contrast agents

Immunosuppressive treatment of chronic periaortitis: a retrospective study of 20 patients with chronic periaortitis and a review of the literature

Synovial tissue macrophages: a sensitive biomarker for response to treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Pregnancy in patients with rheumatic disease: anti-inflammatory cytokines increase in pregnancy and decrease post partum

Male microchimerism in women with systemic sclerosis and healthy women who have never given birth to a son

Raised levels of interleukin 6 in systemic lupus erythematosus correlate with anaemia

Soluble TRAIL concentrations are raised in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, multicentre trial of combination therapy with methotrexate plus ciclosporin in patients with active psoriatic arthritis

Depletion of synovial macrophages in rheumatoid arthritis by an anti-FcRI-calicheamicin immunoconjugate

Uveitis in young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a clinical evaluation of 123 patients

In the middle of the decade

In the middle of the decade

Investigational Article

Tumour necrosis factor activates the mitogen-activated protein kinases p38? and ERK in the synovial membrane in vivo

Chronic development of collagen-induced arthritis is associated with arthritogenic antibodies against specific epitopes on type II collagen

Shared expression of phenotypic markers in systemic sclerosis indicates a convergence of pericytes and fibroblasts to a myofibroblast lineage in fibrosis

Sex hormone modulation of cell growth and apoptosis of the human monocytic/macrophage cell line

Altered dendritic cell distribution in patients with common variable immunodeficiency

Expression and functional properties of antibodies to tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in rheumatoid arthritis

LESSON OF THE MONTH

Pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis: diagnostic pathway and therapeutic approach