Table of contents

Extended reports

• Immunohistological examination of open sacroiliac biopsies of patients with ankylosing spondylitis: detection of tumour necrosis factor α in two patients with early disease and transforming growth factor β in three more advanced cases (25 October, 2005)

  R J François, L Neure, J Sieper, J Braun
• Anchorage on fibronectin via VLA-5 (α5β1 integrin) protects rheumatoid synovial cells from Fas-induced apoptosis (25 October, 2005)

  A Kitagawa, Y Miura, R Saura, M Mitani, H Ishikawa, A Hashiramoto, S Yoshiya, S Shiozawa, M Kurosaka
• Anti-inflammatory effects of leflunomide in combination with methotrexate on co-culture of T lymphocytes and synovial macrophages from rheumatoid arthritis patients (3 November, 2005)

  M Cutolo, S Capellino, P Montagna, A Sulli, B Seriolo, B Villaggio
• Hand bone loss in early undifferentiated arthritis: evaluating bone mineral density loss before the development of rheumatoid arthritis (10 November, 2005)

  G Haugeberg, M J Green, M A Quinn, H Marzo-Ortega, S Proudman, Z Karim, R J Wakefield, P G Conaghan, S Stewart, P Emery
• Impact of parental history on patients’ cardiovascular mortality in rheumatoid arthritis (25 October, 2005)

  L Björnådal, L Brandt, L Klareskog, J Askling
• Evidence for differential acquired drug resistance to anti-tumour necrosis factor agents in rheumatoid arthritis (8 December, 2005) Free

  A Finckh, J F Simard, C Gabay, P-A Guerne
• Long term efficacy and safety of adalimumab plus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: ARMADA 4 year extended study (24 November, 2005)

  M E Weinblatt, E C Keystone, D E Furst, A F Kavanaugh, E K Chartash, O G Segurado
• Observational study on efficacy, safety, and drug survival of anakinra in rheumatoid arthritis patients in clinical practice (3 November, 2005)

  A A den Broeder, E de Jong, M J A M Franssen, M E C Jeurissen, M Flendrie, F H J van den Hoogen
• Prevalence and predictors of disability in valued life activities among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (25 October, 2005)

  P P Katz, A Morris, E H Yelin
• Determinants of hyperkyphosis in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (11 October, 2005)

  D Vosse, D van der Heijde, R Landewé, P Geusens, H Mielants, M Dougados, S van der Linden
• Finnish HLA studies confirm the increased risk conferred by HLA-B27 homozygosity in ankylosing spondylitis (25 October, 2005)

  E Jaakkola, I Herzberg, K Laiho, M C N M Barnardo, J J Pointon, M Kauppi, K Kaarela, E Tuomilehto-Wolf, J Tuomilehto, B P Wordsworth, M A Brown
• Greater reduction of knee than hip pain in osteoarthritis treated with naproxen, as evaluated by WOMAC and SF-36 (3 November, 2005)

  O Svensson, M Malmenäs, L Fajutrao, E M Roos, L S Lohmander
• Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic US cohort (LUMINA): XXIV. Cytotoxic treatment is an additional risk factor for the development of symptomatic osteonecrosis in lupus patients: results of a nested matched case–control study (3 November, 2005)

  J Calvo-Alén, G McGwin, S Toloza, M Fernández, J M Roseman, H M Bastian, E J Cepeda, E B González, B A Baethge, B J Fessler, L M Vilá, J D Reveille, G S Alarcón
• Study of the role of functional variants of SLC22A4, RUNX1 and SUMO4 in systemic lupus erythematosus

  (25 October, 2005)

  G Orozco, E Sánchez, L M Gómez, M A González-Gay, M A López-Nevot, B Torres, N Ortego-Centeno, J Jiménez-Alonso, E de Ramón, J Sánchez Román, J M Anaya, G Sturfelt, I Gunnarsson, E Svennungsson, M Alarcón-Riquelme, M F González-Escribano, J Martín
• Lymphoma and other malignancies in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: a cohort study on cancer incidence and lymphoma predictors (10 November, 2005)

  E Theander, G Henriksson, O Ljungberg, T Mandl, R Manthorpe, L T H Jacobsson
• Combining information obtained from magnetic resonance imaging and conventional radiographs to detect sacroiliitis in patients with recent onset inflammatory back pain (11 October, 2005)

  L Heuft-Dorenbosch, R Landewé, R Weijers, A Wanders, H Houben, S van der Linden, D van der Heijde
• The incidences of and consultation rate for lower extremity complaints in general practice (3 November, 2005)

  J M van der Waal, S D M Bot, C B Terwee, D A W M van der Windt, F G Schellevis, L M Bouter, J Dekker