Annals ofAutoimmunity

Volume: 8 - Number: 86 - September 15, 2009

Outstanding

FERUM levels of soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products and of S100 proteins are associated with inflammatory, autoantibody, and classical risk markers of joint and vascular damage in RA rheumatoid arthritis

Apigenin, a non-mutagenic dietary flavonoid, suppresses lupus by inhibiting autoantigen presentation for expansion of autoreactive Th1 and Th17 cells

Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in pregnant patients affected with systemic lupus erythematosus and recurrent spontaneous abortion

Arteriosclerosis obliterans associated with anti-cardiolipin antibody / ?2-glycoprotein I antibodies as a strong risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Basic Sciences

Synovial detection and autoantibody reactivity of processed citrullinated isoforms of vimentin in inflammatory arthritides

T lymphocytes in patients with primary vasculitis: expansion of CD8+ T cells with the propensity to activate polymorphonuclear neutrophils

Autoimmune reactivity against the 20S-proteasome includes immunosubunits LMP2 (?1i), MECL1 (?2i) and LMP7 (?5i)

PTPN22 gene polymorphism in Takayasu\'s arteritis

Case report

Occurrence of cold agglutinin disease in RA patient during etanercept therapy successfully treated with rituximab

Imatinib for the treatment of refractory, diffuse systemic sclerosis

Central nervous system Aspergillus fumigatus presenting as cranial nerve palsy in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis on anti-TNF therapy

Clinic

Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in pregnant patients affected with systemic lupus erythematosus and recurrent spontaneous abortion

Sensitivity and specificity of autoantibodies binding to citrullinated carboxyterminal telopeptides of types I and II collagens in an early arthritis series

Arteriosclerosis obliterans associated with anti-cardiolipin antibody / ?2-glycoprotein I antibodies as a strong risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Beliefs about medicines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus: a comparison between patients of South Asian and White British origin

Revised classification of lupus nephritis is valuable in predicting renal outcome with an indication of the proportion of glomeruli affected by chronic lesions

Evaluation of a new algorithm in classification of systemic vasculitis

Clinical vignetes

Aortic angiosarcoma mimicking large-vessel vasculitis: a diagnostic dilemma

Editorial

Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet\'s disease?

Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis Hormones and Male Rheumatoid Arthritis: Novel Perspectives

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Diagnostic Uncertainty in the Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

What is the primary lesion in SpA dactylitis?

Investigational Article

FERUM levels of soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products and of S100 proteins are associated with inflammatory, autoantibody, and classical risk markers of joint and vascular damage in RA rheumatoid arthritis

Differential gene expression in the salivary gland during development and onset of xerostomia in Sjögren\'s syndrome-like disease of the C57BL/6.NOD-Aec1Aec2 mouse

Gene expression profiling in the synovium identifies a predictive signature of absence of response to adalimumab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

RANKL increases the level of Mcl-1 in osteoclasts and reduces bisphosphonate-induced osteoclast apoptosis in vitro

Apigenin, a non-mutagenic dietary flavonoid, suppresses lupus by inhibiting autoantigen presentation for expansion of autoreactive Th1 and Th17 cells

Letters

5HT2A polymorphism His452Tyr in a German Caucasian systemic sclerosis population

5HT2A polymorphism His452Tyr in a German Caucasian systemic sclerosis population – authors\' response

Review

Consequence of neo-antigenicity of the ‘altered self’

Macrovascular disease and atherosclerosis in SSc