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Extended reports

• Sensorimotor changes and functional performance in patients with knee osteoarthritis (1 November, 1997)

  Michael V Hurley, David L Scott, Joanne Rees, Di J Newham
• Putative analgesic activity of repeated oral doses of vitamin E in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Results of a prospective placebo controlled double blind trial (1 November, 1997)

  S E Edmonds, P G Winyard, R Guo, B Kidd, P Merry, A Langrish-Smith, C Hansen, S Ramm, D R Blake
• Decrease in peripheral type 1 over type 2 T cell cytokine production in patients with rheumatoid arthritis correlates with an increase in severity of disease (1 November, 1997)

  Joel A G van Roon, Catherina M Verhoef, Johanna L A M van Roy, Frits H J Gmelig-Meyling, Olga Huber-Bruning, Floris P J G Lafeber, Johannes W J Bijlsma
• The predictive value of fluctuations in IgM and IgG class anti-dsDNA antibodies for relapses in systemic lupus erythematosus. A prospective long term observation (1 November, 1997)

  Hendrika Bootsma, Peter E Spronk, Evert J Ter Borg, Elsje J Hummel, Greetje de Boer, Pieter C Limburg, Cees G M Kallenberg
• Prevalence and clinical relevance of 52-kDa and 60-kDa Ro/SS-A autoantibodies in Japanese patients with systemic sclerosis (1 November, 1997)

  M Fujimoto, M Shimozuma, N Yazawa, M Kubo, H Ihn, S Sato, T Tamaki, K Kikuchi, K Tamaki
• Invasion and persistence of Salmonella in human fibroblasts positive or negative for endogenous HLA B27

  (1 November, 1997)

  Hans-Iko Huppertz, Jürgen Heesemann
• Changes in articular cartilage in experimentally induced patellar subluxation (1 November, 1997)

  Junnosuke Ryu, Shu Saito, Kazuki Yamamoto