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Extended report

• Analysis of the cell infiltrate and expression of matrix metalloproteinases and granzyme B in paired synovial biopsy specimens from the cartilage-pannus junction in patients with RA (1 June, 2001)

  T J M Smeets, M C Kraan, S Galjaard, P P Youssef, M D Smith, P P Tak
• Comparative study of intramuscular gold and methotrexate in a rheumatoid arthritis population from a socially deprived area (1 June, 2001)

  J Hamilton, I B McInnes, E A Thomson, D Porter, J A Hunter, R Madhok, H A Capell
• Clinical and immunogenetic characteristics of European multicase rheumatoid arthritis families (1 June, 2001)

  A Balsa, P Barrera, R Westhovens, H Alves, K Maenaut, D Pascual-Salcedo, F Cornélis, T Bardin, L Riente, T R D J Radstake, G de Almeida, V Lepage, C Stravopoulos, M Spaepen, A Lopes-Vaz, D Charron, M Martinez, J F Prudhomme, P Migliorini, P Fritz
• Phase I/II trial of autologous stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis: procedure related mortality and impact on skin disease (1 June, 2001)

  M Binks, J R Passweg, D Furst, P McSweeney, K Sullivan, C Besenthal, J Finke, H H Peter, J van Laar, F C Breedveld, W E Fibbe, D Farge, E Gluckman, F Locatelli, A Martini, F van den Hoogen, L van de Putte, A V N Schattenberg, R Arnold, P A Bacon, P Emery, I Espigado, B Hertenstein, F Hiepe, A Kashyap, I Kötter, A Marmont, A Martinez, M J Pascual, A Gratwohl, H G Prentice, C Black, A Tyndall
• European multicentre study to define disease activity criteria for systemic sclerosis. I. Clinical and epidemiological features of 290 patients from 19 centres (1 June, 2001)

  A Della Rossa, G Valentini, S Bombardieri, W Bencivelli, A J Silman, S D'Angelo, M Matucci Cerinic, J F Belch, C M Black, R Becvar, P Bruhlman, F Cozzi, L Czirják, A A Drosos, B Dziankowska, C Ferri, A Gabrielli, R Giacomelli, G Hayem, M Inanc, N J McHugh, H Nielsen, R Scorza, E Tirri, F H J van den Hoogen, P G Vlachoyiannopoulos
• European multicentre study to define disease activity criteria for systemic sclerosis. II. Identification of disease activity variables and development of preliminary activity indexes (1 June, 2001)

  G Valentini, A Della Rossa, S Bombardieri, W Bencivelli, A J Silman, S D'Angelo, M Matucci Cerinic, J F Belch, C M Black, P Bruhlmann, L Czirják, A De Luca, A A Drosos, C Ferri, A Gabrielli, R Giacomelli, G Hayem, M Inanc, N J McHugh, H Nielsen, M Rosada, R Scorza, J Stork, A Sysa, F H J van den Hoogen, P J Vlachoyiannopoulos
• Pregnancy in past or present lupus nephritis: a study of 32 pregnancies from a single centre (1 June, 2001)

  D Lê Thi Huong, B Wechsler, D Vauthier-Brouzes, H Beaufils, G Lefebvre, J-C Piette
• Male sex predominance in Chlamydia trachomatis sexually acquired reactive arthritis: are women more protected by anti-chlamydia antibodies?

  (1 June, 2001)

  S Bas, C Scieux, T L Vischer
• Static postural sway, proprioception, and maximal voluntary quadriceps contraction in patients with knee osteoarthritis and normal control subjects (1 June, 2001)

  B S Hassan, S Mockett, M Doherty
• Cross sectional evaluation of biochemical markers of bone, cartilage, and synovial tissue metabolism in patients with knee osteoarthritis: relations with disease activity and joint damage (1 June, 2001)

  P Garnero, M Piperno, E Gineyts, S Christgau, P D Delmas, E Vignon
• Raised levels of F₂-isoprostanes and prostaglandin F_2α in different rheumatic diseases

  (1 June, 2001)

  S Basu, M Whiteman, D L Mattey, B Halliwell