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Extended reports

• EP₂/EP₄ signalling inhibits monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 production induced by interleukin 1β in synovial fibroblasts

  (10 September, 2004)

  R Largo, I Díez-Ortego, O Sanchez-Pernaute, M J López-Armada, M A Alvarez-Soria, J Egido, G Herrero-Beaumont
• Discrepancy between mRNA and protein expression of tumour suppressor maspin in synovial tissue may contribute to synovial hyperplasia in rheumatoid arthritis (10 September, 2004)

  J Schedel, O Distler, M Woenckhaus, R E Gay, B Simmen, B A Michel, U Müller-Ladner, S Gay
• A prospective study of pregnant patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis using validated clinical instruments (10 September, 2004)

  M Østensen, L Fuhrer, R Mathieu, M Seitz, P M Villiger
• Decrease of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor following anti-TNFα therapy (infliximab) in rheumatoid arthritis is associated with clinical improvement (10 September, 2004)

  C Alessandri, M Bombardieri, N Papa, M Cinquini, L Magrini, A Tincani, G Valesini
• Influence of guideline adherence on outcome in a randomised controlled trial on the efficacy of methotrexate with folate supplementation in rheumatoid arthritis (10 September, 2004)

  J Fransen, R F J M Laan, M A F J van der Laar, T W J Huizinga, P L C M van Riel
• Methotrexate related adverse effects in patients with rheumatoid arthritis are associated with the A1298C polymorphism of the MTHFR gene (10 September, 2004)

  Y Berkun, D Levartovsky, A Rubinow, H Orbach, S Aamar, T Grenader, I Abou Atta, D Mevorach, G Friedman, A Ben-Yehuda
• Better efficacy of methotrexate given by intramuscular injection than orally in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (10 September, 2004)

  J Wegrzyn, P Adeleine, P Miossec
• Characteristics of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in France: a study of 1109 patients managed by hospital based rheumatologists (10 September, 2004)

  J Sany, P Bourgeois, A Saraux, S Durieux, A Lafuma, J P Daurès, F Guillemin, J Sibilia
• Antiphospholipid antibodies, systemic lupus erythematosus, and non-traumatic metatarsal fractures (10 September, 2004)

  S Sangle, D P D’Cruz, M A Khamashta, G R V Hughes
• Association of the oestrogen receptor α gene polymorphisms with disease onset in systemic lupus erythematosus (10 September, 2004)

  Y J Lee, K S Shin, S W Kang, C K Lee, B Yoo, H S Cha, E M Koh, S J Yoon, J Lee
• Anti-telomere antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): a comparison with five antinuclear antibody assays in 430 patients with SLE and other rheumatic diseases (10 September, 2004)

  E M Salonen, A Miettinen, T K Walle, S Koskenmies, J Kere, H Julkunen
• Genetic mechanisms of knee osteoarthritis: a population based case–control study (10 September, 2004)

  G Jones, C Ding, F Scott, F Cicuttini
• A randomised controlled trial of intra-articular corticosteroid injection of the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb in osteoarthritis (10 September, 2004)

  G K Meenagh, J Patton, C Kynes, G D Wright
• Is avoidant coping independent of disease status and stable over time in patients with ankylosing spondylitis? (10 September, 2004)

  A Boonen, D van der Heijde, R Landewé, A Chorus, W van Lankveld, H Miedema, H van der Tempel, S van der Linden
• Attitudes to early rheumatoid arthritis: changing patterns. Results of a survey (10 September, 2004)

  D Aletaha, G Eberl, V P K Nell, K P Machold, J S Smolen
• Increased prevalence of ocular glaucomatous abnormalities in systemic sclerosis (10 September, 2004)

  Y Allanore, C Parc, D Monnet, A P Brézin, A Kahan
• A disease activity score for polymyalgia rheumatica (10 September, 2004)

  B F Leeb, H A Bird
• Detection of small joint synovitis by ultrasonography: the learning curve of rheumatologists (10 September, 2004)

  M-A D’Agostino, J-F Maillefert, R Said-Nahal, M Breban, P Ravaud, M Dougados
• Interrater reproducibility of clinical tests for rotator cuff lesions (10 September, 2004)

  A J K Ostor, C A Richards, A T Prevost, B L Hazleman, C A Speed
• A comparison of four shoulder-specific questionnaires in primary care (10 September, 2004)

  A Paul, M Lewis, M F Shadforth, P R Croft, D A W M van der Windt, E M Hay
• Predominance of Th1 cytokine in peripheral blood and pathological tissues of patients with active untreated adult onset Still’s disease (10 September, 2004)

  D Y Chen, J L Lan, F J Lin, T Y Hsieh, M C Wen
• Urinary bladder cancer in Wegener’s granulomatosis: risks and relation to cyclophosphamide (6 May, 2004)

  A Knight, J Askling, F Granath, P Sparen, A Ekbom
• Antiphospholipid syndrome associated with infections: clinical and microbiological characteristics of 100 patients (10 September, 2004)

  R Cervera, R A Asherson, M L Acevedo, J A Gómez-Puerta, G Espinosa, G de la Red, V Gil, M Ramos-Casals, M García-Carrasco, M Ingelmo, J Font
• Autologous stem cell transplantation for refractory juvenile idiopathic arthritis: analysis of clinical effects, mortality, and transplant related morbidity (10 September, 2004)

  I M de Kleer, D M C Brinkman, A Ferster, M Abinun, P Quartier, J van der Net, R ten Cate, L R Wedderburn, G Horneff, J Oppermann, F Zintl, H E Foster, A M Prieur, A Fasth, M A J van Rossum, W Kuis, N M Wulffraat