Annals ofRheumatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 28 - January 15, 2004

Outstanding

Mixed messages: modulation of inflammation and immune responses by prostaglandins and thromboxanes

Novel Concepts of Severity Mechanisms in AS

Neuropeptide Y induces ischemic angiogenesis and restores function of ischemic skeletal muscles

NSAID Toxicity: Where Are We and How Do We Go Forward?

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Novel Concepts of Severity Mechanisms in AS

Arthritis drugs

Methotrexate: Vital New Information About a Middle Aged Drug

Guidelines in arthritis drugs

New guidelines issued for arthritis drugs

Immunodeficiencies and cytokines

Molecular aspects of primary immunodeficiencies: lessons from cytokine and other signaling pathways

Inflammation

Mixed messages: modulation of inflammation and immune responses by prostaglandins and thromboxanes

NF-B: a key role in inflammatory diseases

Macrophage

mRNA expression profiles for Escherichia coli ingested by normal and phagocyte oxidase-deficient human neutrophils

Muscle and angiogenesis

Neuropeptide Y induces ischemic angiogenesis and restores function of ischemic skeletal muscles

NSAIDs

NSAIDs and enantiomers of flurbiprofen target -secretase and lower Aß42 in vivo

Periodic fever

Medical Progress: Hereditary Periodic Fever

Polymyalgia and arteritis

Medical Progress: Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant-Cell Arteritis

Psoriatric biology

Mechanisms of TNF-– and RANKL-mediated osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption in psoriatic arthritis

Synovial

Natural killer cells in the synovial fluid of rheumatoid arthritis patients exhibit a CD56bright, CD94 bright, CD158negative phenotype

Toxicity for NSAIDs

NSAID Toxicity: Where Are We and How Do We Go Forward?