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Extended reports

• Angiopoietin-1 is expressed in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and is induced by tumour necrosis factor α (1 February, 2003)

  E M Gravallese, A R Pettit, R Lee, R Madore, C Manning, A Tsay, J Gaspar, M B Goldring, S R Goldring, P Oettgen
• Cytokine production in the infrapatellar fat pad: another source of cytokines in knee synovial fluids (1 February, 2003)

  T Ushiyama, T Chano, K Inoue, Y Matsusue
• Interleukin 7 stimulates tumour necrosis factor α and Th1 cytokine production in joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 February, 2003)

  J A G van Roon, K A F M Glaudemans, J W J Bijlsma, F P J G Lafeber
• Anticitrullinated protein/peptide antibody assays in early rheumatoid arthritis for predicting five year radiographic damage (1 February, 2003)

  O Meyer, C Labarre, M Dougados, Ph Goupille, A Cantagrel, A Dubois, P Nicaise-Roland, J Sibilia, B Combe
• Assessment of enthesitis in ankylosing spondylitis (1 February, 2003)

  L Heuft-Dorenbosch, A Spoorenberg, A van Tubergen, R Landewé, H van der Tempel, H Mielants, M Dougados, D van der Heijde
• Bioenergetics of immune cells to assess rheumatic disease activity and efficacy of glucocorticoid treatment (1 February, 2003)

  A Kuhnke, G-R Burmester, S Krauss, F Buttgereit
• Assessment of disability with the World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule II in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (1 February, 2003)

  A van Tubergen, R Landewé, L Heuft-Dorenbosch, A Spoorenberg, D van der Heijde, H van der Tempel, S van der Linden
• Predictors of end stage lung disease in a cohort of patients with scleroderma (1 February, 2003)

  C Morgan, C Knight, M Lunt, C M Black, A J Silman
• Joint consultation of general practitioner and rheumatologist: does it matter? (1 February, 2003)

  G J C Schulpen, W P M Vierhout, D M van der Heijde, R B Landewé, R A G Winkens, S van der Linden
• Diffuse endothelial dysfunction is common to ANCA associated systemic vasculitis and polyarteritis nodosa (1 February, 2003)

  A D Filer, J M Gardner-Medwin, J Thambyrajah, K Raza, D M Carruthers, R J Stevens, L Liu, S E Lowe, J N Townend, P A Bacon
• The level of BLyS (BAFF) correlates with the titre of autoantibodies in human Sjögren’s syndrome (1 February, 2003)

  X Mariette, S Roux, J Zhang, D Bengoufa, F Lavie, T Zhou, R Kimberly