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Extended reports

• Analysis of transforming growth factor β1 gene polymorphisms in patients with systemic sclerosis (1 August, 2002)

  A Crilly, J Hamilton, C J Clark, A Jardine, R Madhok
• Renal functional reserve is impaired in patients with systemic sclerosis without clinical signs of kidney involvement (1 August, 2002)

  R Livi, L Teghini, A Pignone, S Generini, M Matucci-Cerinic, M Cagnoni
• Investigation of hip abductor activation in subjects with clinical unilateral hip osteoarthritis (1 August, 2002)

  K J Sims, C A Richardson, S G Brauer
• Employment perspectives of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (1 August, 2002)

  A M J Chorus, A Boonen, H S Miedema, Sj van der Linden
• One year outcome of undifferentiated polyarthritis (1 August, 2002)

  L M A Jansen, D van Schaardenburg, I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, B A C Dijkmans
• Interleukin 17 induces cartilage collagen breakdown: novel synergistic effects in combination with proinflammatory cytokines (1 August, 2002)

  P J Koshy, N Henderson, C Logan, P F Life, T E Cawston, A D Rowan
• Effect of HLA-B and HLA-DR genes on susceptibility to and severity of spondyloarthropathies in Mexican patients (1 August, 2002)

  G Vargas-Alarcón, J D Londoño, G Hernández-Pacheco, C Pacheco-Tena, E Castillo, M H Cardiel, J Granados, R Burgos-Vargas
• Standardised nomenclature for glucocorticoid dosages and glucocorticoid treatment regimens: current questions and tentative answers in rheumatology (1 August, 2002)

  F Buttgereit, J A P Da Silva, M Boers, G-R Burmester, M Cutolo, J Jacobs, J Kirwan, L Köhler, P van Riel, T Vischer, J W J Bijlsma