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Extended reports

• Synovial inflammation does not change in the absence of effective treatment: implications for the use of synovial histopathology as biomarker in early phase clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis (13 January, 2006)

  D Baeten, J Houbiers, E Kruithof, B Vandooren, F Van den Bosch, A M Boots, E M Veys, A M M Miltenburg, F De Keyser
• Long term NSAID treatment inhibits COX-2 synthesis in the knee synovial membrane of patients with osteoarthritis: differential proinflammatory cytokine profile between celecoxib and aceclofenac (13 February, 2006)

  M A Álvarez-Soria, R Largo, J Santillana, O Sánchez-Pernaute, E Calvo, M Hernández, J Egido, G Herrero-Beaumont
• Safety of extended treatment with anakinra in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (5 January, 2006)

  R M Fleischmann, J Tesser, M H Schiff, J Schechtman, G-R Burmester, R Bennett, D Modafferi, L Zhou, D Bell, B Appleton
• Citrullinated fibrinogen detected as a soluble citrullinated autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fluids (31 January, 2006)

  Y Takizawa, A Suzuki, T Sawada, M Ohsaka, T Inoue, R Yamada, K Yamamoto
• Immunoproteasome subunit LMP2 expression is deregulated in Sjögren’s syndrome but not in other autoimmune disorders (13 January, 2006)

  S Krause, U Kuckelkorn, T Dörner, G-R Burmester, E Feist, P-M Kloetzel
• Distinct recognition of antibodies to centromere proteins in primary Sjögren’s syndrome compared with limited scleroderma (13 January, 2006)

  A C Gelber, S R Pillemer, B J Baum, F M Wigley, L K Hummers, S Morris, A Rosen, L Casciola-Rosen
• Long term remission of Sjögren’s syndrome associated aggressive B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas following combined B cell depletion therapy and CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) (1 December, 2005)

  M Voulgarelis, S Giannouli, A G Tzioufas, H M Moutsopoulos
• The Infliximab Multinational Psoriatic Arthritis Controlled Trial (IMPACT): results of radiographic analyses after 1 year (26 January, 2006)

  A Kavanaugh, C E Antoni, D Gladman, S Wassenberg, B Zhou, A Beutler, G Keenan, G Burmester, D E Furst, M H Weisman, J R Kalden, J Smolen, D van der Heijde
• Impact of anti-TNF treatment on growth in severe juvenile idiopathic arthritis (31 January, 2006)

  P Tynjälä, P Lahdenne, P Vähäsalo, H Kautiainen, V Honkanen
• Osteoarthritis, magnetic resonance imaging, and biochemical markers: a one year prospective study (5 January, 2006)

  O Bruyere, J Collette, M Kothari, S Zaim, D White, H Genant, C Peterfy, N Burlet, D Ethgen, T Montague, C Dabrowski, J-Y Reginster
• Urinary levels of type II collagen C-telopeptide crosslink are unrelated to joint space narrowing in patients with knee osteoarthritis (8 December, 2005)

  S A Mazzuca, K D Brandt, D R Eyre, B P Katz, J Askew, K A Lane
• Association of matrilin-3 polymorphisms with spinal disc degeneration and osteoarthritis of the first carpometacarpal joint of the hand (5 January, 2006)

  J L Min, I Meulenbelt, N Riyazi, M Kloppenburg, J J Houwing-Duistermaat, A B Seymour, C M van Duijn, P E Slagboom
• Are they relevant? A critical evaluation of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health core sets for osteoarthritis from the perspective of patients with knee osteoarthritis in Singapore (5 January, 2006)

  F Xie, J Thumboo, K-Y Fong, N-N Lo, S-J Yeo, K-Y Yang, S-C Li
• Childhood onset arthritis is associated with an increased risk of fracture: a population based study using the General Practice Research Database (20 April, 2006)

  J M Burnham, J Shults, R Weinstein, J D Lewis, M B Leonard
• Gout, not induced by diuretics? A case-control study from primary care (16 November, 2005) Free

  H J E M Janssens, E H van de Lisdonk, M Janssen, H J M van den Hoogen, A L M Verbeek
• A randomised controlled trial of the reciprocating syringe in arthrocentesis (8 December, 2005)

  H T Draeger, J M Twining, C R Johnson, S C Kettwich, L G Kettwich, A D Bankhurst
• Radiological hand involvement in systemic sclerosis (13 January, 2006)

  J Avouac, H Guerini, J Wipff, N Assous, A Chevrot, A Kahan, Y Allanore
• Incidence of diagnosed polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis in the United Kingdom, 1990–2001 (13 January, 2006)

  L Smeeth, C Cook, A J Hall