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Extended reports

• Therapeutic effect of cortistatin on experimental arthritis by downregulating inflammatory and Th1 responses (6 December, 2006)

  Elena Gonzalez-Rey, Alejo Chorny, Raimundo G Del Moral, Nieves Varela, Mario Delgado
• Blood and synovial fluid cytokine signatures in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a cross-sectional study (14 December, 2006) Free

  Wilco de Jager, Esther P A H Hoppenreijs, Nico M Wulffraat, Lucy R Wedderburn, Wietse Kuis, Berent J Prakken
• T cell responses to a non-glycosylated epitope predominate in type II collagen-immunised HLA-DRB1*0101 transgenic mice (17 November, 2006)

  Alexei von Delwig, Daniel M Altmann, Fraser G Charlton, Norman McKie, John D Isaacs, Rikard Holmdahl, John H Robinson
• EULAR recommendations for conducting clinical studies and/or clinical trials in systemic vasculitis: focus on anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis (14 December, 2006)

  Bernhard Hellmich, Oliver Flossmann, Wolfgang L Gross, Paul Bacon, Jan Willem Cohen-Tervaert, Loic Guillevin, David Jayne, Alfred Mahr, Peter A Merkel, Heiner Raspe, David G I Scott, James Witter, Hasan Yazici, Raashid A Luqmani
• African–American and Hispanic ethnicities, renal involvement and obesity predispose to hypertension in systemic lupus erythematosus: results from LUMINA, a multiethnic cohort (LUMINAXLV) (15 November, 2006)

  Sumapa Chaiamnuay, Ana M Bertoli, Jeffrey M Roseman, Gerald McGwin, Mandar Apte, Sergio Durán, Luis M Vilá, John D Reveille, Graciela S Alarcón
• Genomewide linkage scan of hand osteoarthritis in female twin pairs showing replication of quantitative trait loci on chromosomes 2 and 19 (24 November, 2006)

  Gregory Livshits, Bernet S Kato, Guangju Zhai, Deborah J Hart, David Hunter, Alex J MacGregor, Frances M K Williams, Tim D Spector
• Clinical trial of a leucotriene B4 receptor antagonist, BIIL 284, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (14 December, 2006)

  Federico Díaz-González, Rieke H E Alten, William G Bensen, Jacques P Brown, John T Sibley, Maxime Dougados, Stefano Bombardieri, Patrick Durez, Pablo Ortiz, Gonzalo de-Miquel, Alexander Staab, Ralf Sigmund, Laurence Salin, Caroline Leledy, Stephen H Polmar
• Are there gender differences in severity of ankylosing spondylitis? Results from the PSOAS cohort (24 November, 2006)

  Wonuk Lee, John D Reveille, John C Davis, Thomas J Learch, Michael M Ward, Michael H Weisman
• Effect of chondroitin sulphate in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (4 January, 2007)

  Bernard Mazières, Michel Hucher, Mohammed Zaïm, Patrick Garnero
• Arthritis of the large joints—in particular, the knee—at first presentation is predictive for a high level of radiological destruction of the small joints in rheumatoid arthritis (1 December, 2006)

  S P Linn-Rasker, A H M van der Helm-van Mil, F C Breedveld, T W J Huizinga
• Reporting of radiographic methods in randomised controlled trials assessing structural outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (11 December, 2006)

  Gabriel Baron, Isabelle Boutron, Bruno Giraudeau, Philippe Ravaud
• Is shared care with annual hospital review better value for money than predominantly hospital-based care in patients with established stable rheumatoid arthritis? (23 November, 2006)

  Linda Mary Davies, Emily Anne Fargher, Karen Tricker, Peter Dawes, David L Scott, Deborah Symmons
• Persistence of interleukin 7 activity and levels on tumour necrosis factor α blockade in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (21 December, 2006)

  Joel A G van Roon, Sarita A Y Hartgring, Marion Wenting-van Wijk, Kim M G Jacobs, Paul-Peter Tak, Johannes W J Bijlsma, Floris P J G Lafeber
• Treatment with TNF blockers and mortality risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (11 December, 2006)

  Lennart T H Jacobsson, Carl Turesson, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Ingemar F Petersson, Elisabet Lindqvist, Tore Saxne, Pierre Geborek
• Chimeric antibodies to proteinase 3 of IgG1 and IgG3 subclasses induce different magnitudes of functional responses in neutrophils (4 January, 2007)

  Rachel Colman, Abdullah Hussain, Margaret Goodall, Steven P Young, Tanya Pankhurst, Xiaomei Lu, Royston Jefferis, Caroline O S Savage, Julie M Williams