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Extended report

• Immunohistological study of entheses in spondyloarthropathies: comparison in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis (1 April, 2001)

  L Laloux, M-C Voisin, J Allain, N Martin, L Kerboull, X Chevalier, P Claudepierre
• Bone destruction, upward migration, and medialisation of rheumatoid shoulder: a 15 year follow up study (1 April, 2001)

  J T Lehtinen, E A Belt, M J Kauppi, K Kaarela, P P Kuusela, H J Kautiainen, M U K Lehto
• A prospective study of renal disease in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (1 April, 2001)

  Y Koseki, C Terai, M Moriguchi, M Uesato, N Kamatani
• Users of oestrogen replacement therapy have more knee cartilage than non-users (1 April, 2001)

  A E Wluka, S R Davis, M Bailey, S L Stuckey, F M Cicuttini
• Frequency of triggering bacteria in patients with reactive arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis and the relative importance of the tests used for diagnosis (1 April, 2001)

  C Fendler, S Laitko, H Sörensen, C Gripenberg-Lerche, A Groh, J Uksila, K Granfors, J Braun, J Sieper
• Does the Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire have potential as a monitoring tool for subjects with rheumatoid arthritis? (1 April, 2001)

  M C Greenwood, D V Doyle, M Ensor
• Reporting of outcomes in arthritis trials measured on ordinal and interval scales is inadequate in relation to meta-analysis (1 April, 2001)

  P C Gøtzsche
• Employment, work disability, and work days lost in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a cross sectional study of Dutch patients (1 April, 2001)

  A Boonen, A Chorus, H Miedema, D van der Heijde, H van der Tempel, Sj van der Linden
• Antibiotic prophylaxis for haematogenous bacterial arthritis in patients with joint disease: a cost effectiveness analysis (1 April, 2001)

  P Krijnen, C J E Kaandorp, E W Steyerberg, D van Schaardenburg, H J Bernelot Moens, J D F Habbema
• Epidemiology of biopsy proven giant cell arteritis in northwestern Spain: trend over an 18 year period (1 April, 2001)

  M A González-Gay, C Garcia-Porrua, M J Rivas, P Rodriguez-Ledo, J Llorca
• Increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines and nitric oxide metabolites in neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus (1 April, 2001)

  E Svenungsson, M Andersson, L Brundin, R van Vollenhoven, M Khademi, A Tarkowski, D Greitz, M Dahlström, I Lundberg, L Klareskog, T Olsson
• Glucocorticosteroid dependent decrease in the activity of calcineurin in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (1 April, 2001)

  S Sipka, K Szucs, S Szántó, I Kovács, G Lakos, E Kiss, P Antal-Szalmás, G Szegedi, P Gergely
• Immunological and clinical follow up of hepatitis C virus associated cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis (1 April, 2001)

  P Lamprecht, F Moosig, A Gause, K Herlyn, E Csernok, H Hansen, W L Gross
• Down regulation of interleukin 1β production in human osteoarthritic synovial tissue and cartilage cultures by aminoguanidine (1 April, 2001)

  I Shirazi, I Yaron, Y Wollman, M Blum, T Chernihovsky, R Judovich, A Iaina, M Yaron
• Tensile properties of rat anterior cruciate ligament in collagen induced arthritis (1 April, 2001)

  K Nawata, M Enokida, D Yamasaki, T Minamizaki, H Hagino, Y Morio, R Teshima
• Basic calcium phosphate crystals activate human osteoarthritic synovial fibroblasts and induce matrix metalloproteinase-13 (collagenase-3) in adult porcine articular chondrocytes (1 April, 2001)

  G M McCarthy, P R Westfall, I Masuda, P A Christopherson, H S Cheung, P G Mitchell