Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 5 - Number: 49 - August 15, 2006

Outstanding

Natural killer cell dysfunction is a distinguishing feature of systemic onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and macrophage activation syndrome

The critical role of arginine residues in the binding of human monoclonal antibodies to cardiolipin

Elevated matrix metalloproteinase-9 in patients with systemic sclerosis

Rheumatoid and psoriatic knee synovitis: clinical, grey scale, and power Doppler ultrasound assessment of the response to etanercept

Concise reports

Infliximab treatment in ankylosing spondylitis: an observational study

Disseminated intravascular coagulation in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and haematological characteristics of 23 patients

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the gene encoding the major histocompatibility complex class II transactivator (CIITA) in systemic lupus erythematosus

Lack of genetic association of the three more common polymorphisms of CARD15 with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis in a German cohort

Changes in salivary gland immunohistology and function after rituximab monotherapy in a patient with Sjögren’s syndrome and associated MALT lymphoma

Extended reports

Favourable social functioning and health related quality of life of patients with JIA in early adulthood

Rheumatoid and psoriatic knee synovitis: clinical, grey scale, and power Doppler ultrasound assessment of the response to etanercept

Tolerance and short term efficacy of rituximab in 43 patients with systemic autoimmune diseases

Ultrasound guided synovial biopsy using portal and forceps

CARD15 gene polymorphisms in patients with spondyloarthropathies identify a specific phenotype previously related to Crohn’s disease

Lumbosacral radiographic signs in patients with previous enteroarthritis or uroarthritis

Investigational Article

Relaxin's induction of metalloproteinases is associated with the loss of collagen and glycosaminoglycans in synovial joint fibrocartilaginous explants

p53 tumor suppressor gene mutations in fibroblast-like synoviocytes from erosion synovium and non-erosion synovium in rheumatoid arthritis

Identification of a SmD3 epitope with a single symmetrical dimethylation of an arginine residue as a specific target of a subpopulation of anti-Sm antibodies

Natural killer cell dysfunction is a distinguishing feature of systemic onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and macrophage activation syndrome

Quantitative ultrasonic assessment for detecting microscopic cartilage damage in osteoarthritis

The critical role of arginine residues in the binding of human monoclonal antibodies to cardiolipin

A model of inflammatory arthritis highlights a role for oncostatin M in pro-inflammatory cytokine-induced bone destruction via RANK/RANKL

Serum cathepsin K levels of patients with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis: correlation with radiological destruction

Elevated matrix metalloproteinase-9 in patients with systemic sclerosis

Interleukin-7 deficiency in rheumatoid arthritis: consequences for therapy-induced lymphopenia