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Extended reports

• Association of oestrogen receptor gene polymorphisms with age at onset of rheumatoid arthritis (1 January, 1999)

  Toshio Ushiyama, Kanji Mori, Koji Inoue, Jie Huang, Junichi Nishioka, Sinsuke Hukuda
• Mortality in rheumatoid arthritis patients with disease onset in the 1980s (1 January, 1999)

  Elisabet Lindqvist, Kerstin Eberhardt
• Effectiveness of home exercise on pain and disability from osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomised controlled trial (1 January, 1999)

  Sheila C O’Reilly, Ken R Muir, Michael Doherty
• Bone scintigraphy in chronic knee pain: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging (1 January, 1999)

  Torsten Boegård, Olof Rudling, Jan Dahlström, Hans Dirksen, Ingemar F Petersson, Kjell Jonsson
• Thickness of human articular cartilage in joints of the lower limb (1 January, 1999)

  D E T Shepherd, B B Seedhom
• Lysylhydroxylation and non-reducible crosslinking of human supraspinatus tendon collagen: changes with age and in chronic rotator cuff tendinitis (1 January, 1999)

  Ruud A Bank, Johan M TeKoppele, Geja Oostingh, Brian L Hazleman, Graham P Riley
• Anti-perinuclear factor compared with the so called “antikeratin” antibodies and antibodies to human epidermis filaggrin, in the diagnosis of arthritides (1 January, 1999)

  Christian Vincent, Filip de Keyser, Christine Masson-Bessière, Mireille Sebbag, Eric M Veys, Guy Serre
• The immune suppressive effect of dexamethasone in rheumatoid arthritis is accompanied by upregulation of interleukin 10 and by differential changes in interferon γ and interleukin 4 production (1 January, 1999)

  Catharina M Verhoef, Joel A G van Roon, Marieke E Vianen, Floris P J G Lafeber, Johannes W J Bijlsma
• Thrombin receptor mediated signals induce expressions of interleukin 6 and granulocyte colony stimulating factor via NF-κB activation in synovial fibroblasts (1 January, 1999)

  Hiroshi Shin, Isao Kitajima, Toshihiro Nakajima, Qing Shao, Takeshi Tokioka, Ikuko Takasaki, Naohiro Hanyu, Toshikazu Kubo, Ikuro Maruyama