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Clinical and epidemiological research
Pathological features of temporal arteries in patients with giant cell arteritis presenting with permanent visual loss

D Chatelain, P Duhaut, J Schmidt, R Loire, S Bosshard, M Guernou, H Pellet, J C Piette, H Sevestre, J P Ducroix on behalf of the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Artérite à Cellules Géantes (GRACG)
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 84 -88; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.084947 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Detection, identification and in vivo treatment responsiveness of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-activated cell populations in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

P C P M Verschueren, R J U Lories, M Daans, I Théate, P Durez, R Westhovens, and F P Luyten
Ann Rheum Dis 2009 68: 117 -123; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.080127 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only appendix ]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
A high incidence of disease flares in an open pilot study of infliximab in patients with refractory inflammatory myopathies

M Dastmalchi, C Grundtman, H Alexanderson, C P Mavragani, H Einarsdottir, S Barbasso Helmers, K Elvin, M K Crow, I Nennesmo, and I E Lundberg
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1670 -1677; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.077974 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only appendices ]  

Clinical and epidemiological research
Tumour-like mass lesion: an under-recognised presentation of primary angiitis of the central nervous system

E S Molloy, A B Singhal, and L H Calabrese
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1732 -1735; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.096800 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Effects of immunosuppressive treatment on microsomal prostaglandin E synthase 1 and cyclooxygenases expression in muscle tissue of patients with polymyositis or dermatomyositis

M Korotkova, S Barbasso Helmers, I Loell, H Alexanderson, C Grundtman, C Dorph, I E Lundberg, and P-J Jakobsson
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1596 -1602; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.079525 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Tumour necrosis factor blockade increases lymphangiogenesis in murine and human arthritic joints

K Polzer, D Baeten, A Soleiman, J Distler, D M Gerlag, P P Tak, G Schett, and J Zwerina
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1610 -1616; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.083394 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Basic and translational research
Smoking increases peptidylarginine deiminase 2 enzyme expression in human lungs and increases citrullination in BAL cells

D Makrygiannakis, M Hermansson, A-K Ulfgren, A P Nicholas, A J W Zendman, A Eklund, J Grunewald, C M Skold, L Klareskog, and A I Catrina
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1488 -1492; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.075192 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only figures ]  

Extended reports
COMP: a candidate molecule in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis with a potential as a disease marker

R Hesselstrand, A Kassner, D Heinegård, and T Saxne
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1242 -1248; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.082099 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Concise reports
Effect of intra-articular infliximab on synovial membrane pathology in a patient with a seronegative spondyloarthropathy

M J Ahern, D G Campbell, H Weedon, V Papangelis, and M D Smith
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1339 -1342; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2008.090910 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Extended reports
The clinical response to infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis is in part dependent on pretreatment tumour necrosis factor expression in the synovium

C A Wijbrandts, M G W Dijkgraaf, M C Kraan, M Vinkenoog, T J Smeets, H Dinant, K Vos, W F Lems, G J Wolbink, D Sijpkens, B A C Dijkmans, and P P Tak
Ann Rheum Dis 2008 67: 1139 -1144; published online before print as 10.1136/ard.2007.080440 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]