Table of contents

Extended reports

• Long term effectiveness of antimalarial drugs in rheumatic diseases (1 October, 1998) Free

  J Antonio Aviña-Zubieta, Griselda Galindo-Rodriguez, Stephen Newman, Maria E Suarez-Almazor, Anthony S Russell
• Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability (1 October, 1998) Free

  Sheila C O’Reilly, Adrian Jones, Ken R Muir, Michael Doherty
• Radiographic assessment of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in the community: definitions and normal joint space (1 October, 1998) Free

  Peter Lanyon, Sheila O’Reilly, Adrian Jones, Michael Doherty
• Hyaluronan production in human rheumatoid fibroblastic synovial lining cells is increased by interleukin 1β but inhibited by transforming growth factor β1 (1 October, 1998) Free

  Makoto Kawakami, Kimihiro Suzuki, Yasunori Matsuki, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Toshihiko Hidaka, Tatsuya Konishi, Mitsuyo Matsumoto, Koji Kataharada, Haruo Nakamura
• Evidence of autoantibodies to cell membrane associated DNA (cultured lymphocytes): a new specific marker for rapid identification of systemic lupus erythematosus (1 October, 1998) Free

  Geneviève Servais, Marie-Paule Guillaume, Nicolas Dumarey, Jean Duchateau
• Bisphosphonates in bone cement inhibit PMMA particle induced bone resorption (1 October, 1998) Free

  Afsaneh Sabokbar, Yosuke Fujikawa, David W Murray, Nicholas A Athanasou
• Expression of tenascin-C in aseptic loosening of total hip replacement (1 October, 1998) Free

  Yrjö T Konttinen, Tian-Fang Li, Oliver Michelsson, Jing-Wen Xu, Timo Sorsa, Seppo Santavirta, Shinji Imai, Ismo Virtanen