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Extended reports

• The relationship between toe-out angle during gait and progression of medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (31 January, 2007)

  Alison Chang, Debra Hurwitz, Dorothy Dunlop, Jing Song, September Cahue, Karen Hayes, Leena Sharma
• Limited effects of high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment on molecular expression in muscle tissue of patients with inflammatory myopathies (2 February, 2007)

  Sevim Barbasso Helmers, Maryam Dastmalchi, Helene Alexanderson, Inger Nennesmo, Mona Esbjörnsson, Björn Lindvall, Ingrid E Lundberg
• Endothelial progenitor cells in active rheumatoid arthritis: effects of tumour necrosis factor and glucocorticoid therapy (9 February, 2007)

  Johannes Grisar, Daniel Aletaha, Carl W Steiner, Theresa Kapral, Sabine Steiner, Marcus Säemann, Ilse Schwarzinger, Barbara Buranyi, Günter Steiner, Josef S Smolen
• Sulfasalazine sensitises human monocytic/macrophage cells for glucocorticoids by upregulation of glucocorticoid receptor α and glucocorticoid induced apoptosis (31 January, 2007)

  Ruud Oerlemans, Josefien Vink, Ben A C Dijkmans, Yehuda G Assaraf, Marjolein van Miltenburg, Joost van der Heijden, Ilan Ifergan, Willem F Lems, Rik J Scheper, Gertjan J L Kaspers, Jacqueline Cloos, Gerrit Jansen
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and myocardial infarctions: comparative systematic review of evidence from observational studies and randomised controlled trials (7 March, 2007)

  P A Scott, G H Kingsley, C M Smith, E H Choy, D L Scott
• Reduced circulating levels of angiotensin-(1–7) in systemic sclerosis: a new pathway in the dysregulation of endothelial-dependent vascular tone control (14 March, 2007)

  Alberto Pignone, Angela Del Rosso, K Bridget Brosnihan, Federico Perfetto, Riccardo Livi, Ginevra Fiori, Serena Guiducci, Marina Cinelli, Veronica Rogai, Alessio Tempestini, Francesca Bartoli, Sergio Generini, Carlos M Ferrario, Marco Matucci Cerinic
• Concordance of the management of chronic gout in a UK primary-care population with the EULAR gout recommendations (15 May, 2007) Free

  Edward Roddy, Weiya Zhang, Michael Doherty
• Redefining overweight and obesity in rheumatoid arthritis patients (8 February, 2007)

  Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Giorgos S Metsios, Yiannis Koutedakis, Alan M Nevill, Karen M Douglas, Athanasios Jamurtas, Jet J C S Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Mourad Labib, George D Kitas
• Investigation of association between the TRAF family genes and RA susceptibility

  (2 February, 2007)

  Catherine Potter, Stephen Eyre, Andrew Cope, Jane Worthington, Anne Barton
• Toll-like receptor and antiphospholipid mediated thrombosis: in vivo studies (29 January, 2007)

  Mariano E Vega-Ostertag, Elena Raschi, Xiaowei Liu, Zurina Romay-Penabad, Valeria De Micheli, Monica Galli, Marco Moia, Angela Tincani, Maria Orietta Borghi, Tracy Nguyen-Oghalai, Pier Luigi Meroni
• Circulating levels of the chemokine CCL18 but not CXCL16 are elevated and correlate with disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (9 March, 2007)

  Antoine W T van Lieshout, Jaap Fransen, Marcel Flendrie, Agnes M M Eijsbouts, Frank H J van den Hoogen, Piet L C M van Riel, Timothy R D J Radstake
• Time-dependent increase in risk of hospitalisation with infection among Swedish RA patients treated with TNF antagonists (29 January, 2007)

  Johan Askling, C Michael Fored, Lena Brandt, Eva Baecklund, Lennart Bertilsson, Nils Feltelius, Lars Cöster, Pierre Geborek, Lennart T Jacobsson, Staffan Lindblad, Jörgen Lysholm, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Tore Saxne, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Lars Klareskog
• The diagnostic utility of myositis autoantibody testing for predicting the risk of cancer-associated myositis (28 March, 2007)

  Hector Chinoy, Noreen Fertig, Chester V Oddis, William E R Ollier, Robert G Cooper
• Standardised assessment of membrane proteinase 3 expression. Analysis in ANCA-associated vasculitis and controls (19 April, 2007)

  André P van Rossum, Minke G Huitema, Coen A Stegeman, Marc Bijl, Karina de Leeuw, Miek A Van Leeuwen, Pieter C Limburg, Cees G M Kallenberg
• Limited efficacy of conventional DMARDs after initial methotrexate failure in patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis treated according to the disease activity score (9 February, 2007)

  Sjoerd M van der Kooij, Jeska K de Vries-Bouwstra, Yvonne P M Goekoop-Ruiterman, Derkjen van Zeben, Pit J S M Kerstens, Andreas H Gerards, Johannes H L M van Groenendael, Johanna M W Hazes, Ferdinand C Breedveld, Cornelia F Allaart, Ben A C Dijkmans
• Cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging in primary care consulters with shoulder pain: a case–control study (8 February, 2007)

  Anindita Paul, Martyn Lewis, Jackie Saklatvala, Iain McCall, Mike Shadforth, Peter Croft, Elaine Hay
• Asthma and airways collapse in two heritable disorders of connective tissue (5 April, 2007)

  A W Morgan, S B Pearson, S Davies, H C Gooi, H A Bird
• Are joints affected by gout also affected by osteoarthritis? (6 February, 2007) Free

  Edward Roddy, Weiya Zhang, Michael Doherty