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Arthritis Research & Therapy

Issue 5/2007

Content (37 Articles)

Open Access Research article

Serum IL-15 in patients with early systemic sclerosis: a potential novel marker of lung disease

Dirk M Wuttge, Marie Wildt, Pierre Geborek, Frank A Wollheim, Agneta Scheja, Anita Åkesson

Open Access Research article

Antipolymer antibody in Italian fibromyalgic patients

Laura Bazzichi, Camillo Giacomelli, Francesca De Feo, Tiziana Giuliano, Alessandra Rossi, Marica Doveri, Chiara Tani, Russell B Wilson, Stefano Bombardieri

Open Access Research article

Skewed distribution of proinflammatory CD4+CD28nullT cells in rheumatoid arthritis

Andreas ER Fasth, Omri Snir, Anna AT Johansson, Birgitta Nordmark, Afsar Rahbar, Erik af Klint, Niklas K Björkström, Ann-Kristin Ulfgren, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Vivianne Malmström, Christina Trollmo

Open Access Research article

Spectrocolorimetric assessment of cartilage plugs after autologous osteochondral grafting: correlations between color indices and histological findings in a rabbit model

Koji Hattori, Kota Uematsu, Yohei Tanikake, Takashi Habata, Yasuhito Tanaka, Hiroshi Yajima, Yoshinori Takakura

Open Access Research article

Association of the microsatellite in the 3' untranslated region of the CD154 gene with rheumatoid arthritis in females from a Spanish cohort: a case-control study

Trinidad Martin-Donaire, Ignacio Losada-Fernandez, Gema Perez-Chacon, Iñigo Rua-Figueroa, Celia Erausquin, Antonio Naranjo-Hernandez, Silvia Rosado, Florentino Sanchez, Ayoze Garcia-Saavedra, Maria Jesus Citores, Juan A Vargas, Paloma Perez-Aciego

Open Access Research article

Interrelated modulation of endothelial function in Behcet's disease by clinical activity and corticosteroid treatment

Athanase D Protogerou, Petros P Sfikakis, Kimon S Stamatelopoulos, Christos Papamichael, Kostas Aznaouridis, Emmanuil Karatzis, Theodore G Papaioannou, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Phedon Kaklamanis, Myron Mavrikakis, John Lekakis

Open Access Research article

Insights into spatial configuration of a galactosylated epitope required to trigger arthritogenic T-cell receptors specific for the sugar moiety

Simon Glatigny, Marie-Agnès Blaton, Julien Marin, Sylvie Mistou, Jean-Paul Briand, Gilles Guichard, Catherine Fournier, Gilles Chiocchia

Open Access Research article

Passage and reversal effects on gene expression of bovine meniscal fibrochondrocytes

Najmuddin J Gunja, Kyriacos A Athanasiou

Open Access Research article

Expression and regulation of CCL18 in synovial fluid neutrophils of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Judith Auer, Markus Bläss, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Stefan Russwurm, Thomas Nagel, Joachim R Kalden, Martin Röllinghoff, Horst Ulrich Beuscher

Open Access Research article

Serum proteins and paraproteins in women with silicone implants and connective tissue disease: a case–control study

Gyorgy Csako, Rene Costello, Ejaz A Shamim, Terrance P O'Hanlon, Anthony Tran, Daniel J Clauw, H James Williams, Frederick W Miller

Open Access Research article

IL-23 induces human osteoclastogenesis via IL-17 in vitro, and anti-IL-23 antibody attenuates collagen-induced arthritis in rats

Toru Yago, Yuki Nanke, Manabu Kawamoto, Takefumi Furuya, Tsuyoshi Kobashigawa, Naoyuki Kamatani, Shigeru Kotake

Open Access Research article

NF-κB inhibitor dehydroxymethylepoxyquinomicin suppresses osteoclastogenesis and expression of NFATc1 in mouse arthritis without affecting expression of RANKL, osteoprotegerin or macrophage colony-stimulating factor

Tetsuo Kubota, Machiko Hoshino, Kazuhiro Aoki, Keiichi Ohya, Yukiko Komano, Toshihiro Nanki, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Kazuo Umezawa

Open Access Research article

A case-control study of rheumatoid arthritis identifies an associated single nucleotide polymorphism in the NCF4 gene, supporting a role for the NADPH-oxidase complex in autoimmunity

Lina M Olsson, Anna-Karin Lindqvist, Henrik Källberg, Leonid Padyukov, Harald Burkhardt, Lars Alfredsson, Lars Klareskog, Rikard Holmdahl

Open Access Research article

The influence of the NOD Nss1/Idd5 loci on sialadenitis and gene expression in salivary glands of congenic mice

Trond Ove R Hjelmervik, Anna-Karin Lindqvist, Kjell Petersen, Martina Johannesson, Anne-Kristin Stavrum, Åsa Johansson, Roland Jonsson, Rikard Holmdahl, Anne Isine Bolstad

Open Access Research article

Immunohistological assessment of the synovial tissue in small joints in rheumatoid arthritis: validation of a minimally invasive ultrasound-guided synovial biopsy procedure

Carlo Alberto Scirè, Oscar Epis, Veronica Codullo, Frances Humby, Patrizia Morbini, Antonio Manzo, Roberto Caporali, Costantino Pitzalis, Carlomaurizio Montecucco

Letter

ITGAVpolymorphism and disease susceptibility in a Japanese rheumatoid arthritis population

Noriko Iikuni, Shu Kobayashi, Katsunori Ikari, Taisuke Tomatsu, Masako Hara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Naoyuki Kamatani, Shigeki Momohara

Open Access Research article

Elevated extracellular matrix production and degradation upon bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) stimulation point toward a role for BMP-2 in cartilage repair and remodeling

Esmeralda N Blaney Davidson, Elly L Vitters, Peter LEM van Lent, Fons AJ van de Loo, Wim B van den Berg, Peter M van der Kraan

Open Access Research article

The impact of infliximab treatment on quality of life in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases

Chenglong Han, Josef S Smolen, Arthur Kavanaugh, Désirée van der Heijde, Jürgen Braun, René Westhovens, Ning Zhao, Mahboob U Rahman, Daniel Baker, Mohan Bala

Open Access Research article

Glucosamine affects intracellular signalling through inhibition of mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylation in human chondrocytes

Anna Scotto d'Abusco, Valentina Calamia, Claudia Cicione, Brunella Grigolo, Laura Politi, Roberto Scandurra

Open Access Research article

Src kinase inhibition promotes the chondrocyte phenotype

Laura Bursell, Anita Woods, Claudine G James, Daphne Pala, Andrew Leask, Frank Beier

Open Access Research article

Differential responsiveness to immunoablative therapy in refractory rheumatoid arthritis is associated with level and avidity of anti-cyclic citrullinated protein autoantibodies: a case study

YK Onno Teng, Robert J Verburg, Kirsten N Verpoort, Gwendolyn MP Diepenhorst, Ingeborg M Bajema, Maarten JD van Tol, Els CM Jol-van der Zijde, Rene EM Toes, Tom WJ Huizinga, Jacob M van Laar

Open Access Research article

SOX9 transduction of a human chondrocytic cell line identifies novel genes regulated in primary human chondrocytes and in osteoarthritis

Simon R Tew, Peter D Clegg, Christopher J Brew, Colette M Redmond, Timothy E Hardingham

Open Access Research article

Cartilage markers and their association with cartilage loss on magnetic resonance imaging in knee osteoarthritis: the Boston Osteoarthritis Knee Study

David J Hunter, Jiang Li, Michael LaValley, Doug C Bauer, Michael Nevitt, Jeroen DeGroot, Robin Poole, David Eyre, Ali Guermazi, Dan Gale, David T Felson

Open Access Research article

Development of musculoskeletal toxicity without clear benefit after administration of PG-116800, a matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, to patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized, 12-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Piotr Krzeski, Chris Buckland-Wright, Géza Bálint, Gary A Cline, Karen Stoner, Robert Lyon, John Beary, William S Aronstein, Tim D Spector

Open Access Research article

Catechol-O-methyltransferase gene haplotypes in Mexican and Spanish patients with fibromyalgia

Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón, José-Manuel Fragoso, David Cruz-Robles, Angélica Vargas, Alfonso Vargas, José-Ignacio Lao-Villadóniga, Ferrán García-Fructuoso, Manuel Ramos-Kuri, Fernando Hernández, Rashidi Springall, Rafael Bojalil, Maite Vallejo, Manuel Martínez-Lavín

Open Access Research article

Importance of spliceosomal RNP1 motif for intermolecular T-B cell spreading and tolerance restoration in lupus

Fanny Monneaux, Véronique Parietti, Jean-Paul Briand, Sylviane Muller

Open Access Research article

Differential expression of the FAK family kinases in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis synovial tissues

Shiva Shahrara, Hernan P Castro-Rueda, G Kenneth Haines, Alisa E Koch

Open Access Research article

Collagen-induced arthritis in C57BL/6 mice is associated with a robust and sustained T-cell response to type II collagen

Julia J Inglis, Gabriel Criado, Mino Medghalchi, Melanie Andrews, Ann Sandison, Marc Feldmann, Richard O Williams

Open Access Research article

Analysis of C4 and the C4 binding protein in the MRL/lpr mouse

Scott E Wenderfer, Kipruto Soimo, Rick A Wetsel, Michael C Braun

Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

Developed by: Springer Medicine

Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.