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Concise report

• Association of the TNFa13 microsatellite with systemic sclerosis in Japanese patients (1 April, 2000)

  Fujio Takeuchi, Hiromi Nabeta, Monika Füssel, Karsten Conrad, Karl-Heinz Frank
• Circulating concentrations of soluble L-selectin (CD62L) in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (1 April, 2000)

  Mario García-Carrasco, Pilar Pizcueta, Ricard Cervera, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Antoni Sisó, Gloria de la Red, Miguel Ingelmo, Josep Font, Pablo Engel
• Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis in urine of male patients with ankylosing spondylitis is not increased

  (1 April, 2000)

  M van der Paardt, J C van Denderen, A J C van den Brule, S A Morré, I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, P D Bezemer, B A C Dijkmans
• Activation of the transcription factor NF-κB in the rat air pouch model of inflammation (1 April, 2000)

  L Ellis, V Gilston, C C-Y Soo, C J Morris, B L Kidd, P G Winyard
• Bone mineral density and biochemical parameters of bone metabolism in female patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (1 April, 2000)

  Kurt Redlich, Sophie Ziegler, Hans P Kiener, Susanne Spitzauer, Petra Stohlawetz, Peter Bernecker, Franz Kainberger, Stephan Grampp, Stefan Kudlacek, Wolfgang Woloszczuk, Josef S Smolen, Peter Pietschmann
• Response to methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis is associated with a decrease of T cell derived tumour necrosis factor α, increase of interleukin 10, and predicted by the initial concentration of interleukin 4 (1 April, 2000)

  Martin Rudwaleit, Zhinan Yin, Stephanie Siegert, Martina Grolms, Andreas Radbruch, Jürgen Braun, Joachim Sieper
• Urokinase-mediated fibrinolysis in the synovial fluid of rheumatoid arthritis patients may be affected by the inactivation of single chain urokinase type plasminogen activator by thrombin (1 April, 2000)

  E A M Braat, A F H Jie, H K Ronday, B Beekman, D C Rijken