Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 3 - Number: 23 - August 15, 2003

Outstanding

Lymphomas complicating Sjögren's syndrome and hepatitis C virus infection may share a common pathogenesis: chronic stimulation of rheumatoid factor B cells

Pulmonary Vasculitis: A Clinical overview.

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

True Primary Sjogren's Syndrome in a Subset of Patients with Hepatitis C Infection: A Model to Link Chronic Infection to Chronic Sialadenitis

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Circulating cytotoxic CD8+ CD28- T cells in ankylosing spondylitis

Arthritis

Anti-TNF-? antibody allows healing of joint damage in polyarthritic transgenic mice

T-cell activation without proliferation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Th1 and Th2 cytokines regulate proteoglycan-specific autoantibody isotypes and arthritis

Autoimmune Disease Organs Specific

Suppression of experimental autoimmune neuritis by leflunomide

Leptin surge precedes onset of autoimmune encephalomyelitis and correlates with development of pathogenic T cell responses

The intricate interplay among body weight, stress, and the immune response to friend or foe

Autoimmune Vasculitis

Bcl-2 rearrangement in patients with chronic hepatitis C associated with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia type II

Immunological and clinical follow up of hepatitis C virus associated cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis

Proteinase-3 as the major autoantigen of c-ANCA is strongly expressed in lung tissue of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis

Clinical Assay in Development

Pilot Trial of Rituximab (Rituxan) in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (Wegener's Granulomatosis and Microscopic Polyangiitis)

Wegener's Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial (WGET)

Immunology

Lack of autoantibody production associated with cytomegalovirus infection

Immunology and Autoimmunity

A full complement of receptors in immune complex diseases

Lupus

The major murine systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility locus, Sle1, is a cluster of functionally related genes

Prolactin modulates the naive B cell repertoire and experimental lupus

Sjögren Syndrome

True Primary Sjogren's Syndrome in a Subset of Patients with Hepatitis C Infection: A Model to Link Chronic Infection to Chronic Sialadenitis

Sjögren Syndrome

Lymphomas complicating Sjögren's syndrome and hepatitis C virus infection may share a common pathogenesis: chronic stimulation of rheumatoid factor B cells

Analysis of immunoglobulin light chain rearrangements in the salivary gland and blood of a patient with Sjögren's syndrome

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in an Adolescent

Vasculitis

Pulmonary Vasculitis: A Clinical overview.