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Clinical and epidemiological research

• Extended report: Allogenic mesenchymal stem cells transplantation in refractory systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot clinical study (21 July, 2010) Free

  Jun Liang, Huayong Zhang, Bingzhu Hua, Hong Wang, Liwei Lu, Songtao Shi, Yayi Hou, Xiaofeng Zeng, Gary S Gilkeson, Lingyun Sun
• Extended report: A randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of etanercept in adults with refractory heel enthesitis in spondyloarthritis: the HEEL trial (28 May, 2010)

  Maxime Dougados, Bernard Combe, Jürgen Braun, Robert Landewé, Jean Sibilia, Alain Cantagrel, Antoine Feydy, Désirée van der Heijde, Véronique Leblanc, Isabelle Logeart
• Extended report: The responsiveness of joint counts, patient-reported measures and proposed composite scores in hand osteoarthritis: analyses from a placebo-controlled trial (8 June, 2009)

  I K Haugen, B Slatkowsky-Christensen, J Lessem, T K Kvien
• Extended report: Application of the DAREA/DAPSA score for assessment of disease activity in psoriatic arthritis (4 June, 2010)

  Monika Schoels, Daniel Aletaha, Julia Funovits, Arthur Kavanaugh, Daniel Baker, Josef S Smolen
• Extended report: Musculoskeletal pain is associated with very low levels of vitamin D in men: results from the European Male Ageing Study (24 May, 2010)

  John McBeth, Stephen R Pye, Terence W O'Neill, Gary J Macfarlane, Abdelouahid Tajar, Gyorgy Bartfai, Steven Boonen, Roger Bouillon, Felipe Casanueva, Joseph D Finn, Gianni Forti, Aleksander Giwercman, Thang S Han, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi, Krzysztof Kula, Michael E J Lean, Neil Pendleton, Margus Punab, Alan J Silman, Dirk Vanderschueren, Frederick C W Wu, EMAS Group
• Extended report: Assessment of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular risk in patients with osteoarthritis who require NSAIDs: the LOGICA study (24 May, 2010)

  Angel Lanas, Jesús Tornero, José Luis Zamorano
• Extended report: Clinical efficacy and safety of glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, their combination, celecoxib or placebo taken to treat osteoarthritis of the knee: 2-year results from GAIT (4 June, 2010)

  Allen D Sawitzke, Helen Shi, Martha F Finco, Dorothy D Dunlop, Crystal L Harris, Nora G Singer, John D Bradley, David Silver, Christopher G Jackson, Nancy E Lane, Chester V Oddis, Fred Wolfe, Jeffrey Lisse, Daniel E Furst, Clifton O Bingham, Domenic J Reda, Roland W Moskowitz, H James Williams, Daniel O Clegg
• Extended report: Both structural damage and inflammation of the spine contribute to impairment of spinal mobility in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (24 May, 2010)

  Pedro Machado, Robert Landewé, Jürgen Braun, Kay-Geert A Hermann, Daniel Baker, Désirée van der Heijde
• Concise report:

  A CLEC16A variant confers risk for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody negative rheumatoid arthritis

  (3 September, 2009)

  Beate Skinningsrud, Benedicte A Lie, Eystein S Husebye, Tore K Kvien, Øystein Førre, Berit Flatø, Alice Stormyr, Geir Joner, Pål R Njølstad, Thore Egeland, Dag E Undlien
• Concise report: Effect of sildenafil on digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis: analysis from a single centre pilot study (8 November, 2009)

  Claudia S Brueckner, Mike O Becker, Thomas Kroencke, Doerte Huscher, Hans Ulrich Scherer, Margitta Worm, Gerd Burmester, Gabriela Riemekasten
• Concise report: Predictors of poor response to methotrexate in polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis: analysis of the PRINTO methotrexate trial (4 June, 2010)

  Iris Vilca, Pablo Garcia Munitis, Angela Pistorio, Angelo Ravelli, Antonella Buoncompagni, Blanca Bica, Lucia Campos, Renate Häfner, Michael Hofer, Seza Ozen, Christian Huemer, Sang Cheol Bae, Flavio Sztajnbok, Olga Arguedas, Ivan Foeldvari, Hans Iko Huppertz, Maria Luz Gamir, Bo Magnusson, Frank Dressler, Yosef Uziel, Marion A J van Rossum, Peter Hollingworth, Gail Cawkwell, Alberto Martini, Nicolino Ruperto, for the Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO)
• Concise report: Recurrent lupus nephritis after kidney transplantation: a surveillance biopsy study (24 May, 2010)

  Gudrun E Norby, Erik H Strøm, Karsten Midtvedt, Anders Hartmann, Inge-Margrethe Gilboe, Torbjørn Leivestad, Jean Stenstrøm, Hallvard Holdaas