Influence of long term silicone implantation on type II collagen induced arthritis in mice.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the contribution of red blood cell (RBC) methotrexate polyglutamates (MTX PGs), RBC folate polyglutamates (folate PGs), and a pharmacogenetic index to the clinical status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with MTX. METHODS:226 adult patients treated with weekly MTX for more than 3 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dervieux T,Furst D,Lein DO,Capps R,Smith K,Caldwell J,Kremer J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A key clinical paradox in osteoarthritis (OA), a prevalent age-related joint disorder characterised by cartilage degeneration and debilitating pain, is that the severity of joint pain does not strictly correlate with radiographic and histological defects in joint tissues. Here, we determined whether protein ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kc R,Li X,Kroin JS,Liu Z,Chen D,Xiao G,Levine B,Li J,Hamilton JL,van Wijnen AJ,Piel M,Shelly DA,Brass D,Kolb E,Im HJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and effectiveness of imatinib mesylate in the treatment of diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc). METHODS:In this phase IIa, open-label, single-arm clinical trial, 30 patients with dcSSc were treated with imatinib 400 mg daily. Patients were monitored monthly for safety assessment...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Spiera RF,Gordon JK,Mersten JN,Magro CM,Mehta M,Wildman HF,Kloiber S,Kirou KA,Lyman S,Crow MK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that endothelin may have a fundamental role in scleroderma pathogenesis, including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)--a leading cause of death in patients with scleroderma. Development of a new class of drug, endothelin receptor antagonists, heralds an improved outlook for patients with scleroder...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hachulla E,Coghlan JG

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Statins offer significant cardiovascular benefits. Their use, however, influences immune regulation, which may potentially facilitate autoimmunity, eventually resulting in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The authors studied whether statin use was associated with an increased risk of dev...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Jong HJ,Klungel OH,van Dijk L,Vandebriel RJ,Leufkens HG,van der Laan JW,Cohen Tervaert JW,van Loveren H

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in understanding mechanisms of disease are necessary to usher in major changes in treatment. A new era in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and related chronic autoimmune/inflammatory diseases is now beginning, with a variety of anti-TNFalpha treatments licensed for use in both RA and Crohn's disease. The rationale f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Feldmann M,Bondeson J,Brennan FM,Foxwell BM,Maini RN

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) compared with subjects without RA, with the increased risk driven potentially by inflammation. Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) may modulate the risk and severity of MI. We compared the risk and severity of MI...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Low AS,Symmons DP,Lunt M,Mercer LK,Gale CP,Watson KD,Dixon WG,Hyrich KL,British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register for Rheumatoid Arthritis (BSRBR-RA) and the BSRBR Control Centre Consortium.

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the usefulness of high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the lungs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with and without respiratory symptoms. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Eighty eight RA patients with a mean duration of disease 12 (SD 8) years were evaluated. Eleven patients were excluded bec...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Cortet B,Flipo RM,Rémy-Jardin M,Coquerelle P,Duquesnoy B,Rêmy J,Delcambre B

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is the major adverse outcome of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) affecting both morbidity and mortality. Preliminary evidence suggested that, although not deregulated compared with sicca controls, miR200b-5p levels are decreased in the minor salivary glands (MSGs) of SS pat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kapsogeorgou EK,Papageorgiou A,Protogerou AD,Voulgarelis M,Tzioufas AG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using clinical, radiological, and morbid anatomical data about patients with arthritis of the hip and their femoral heads resected during total hip replacement, an attempt has been made first, to classify patients and femoral heads by a cluster analysis technique, and secondly and more realistically, to use existing c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Byers PD,Roper BA,Glennie B

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate changes in baseline patient characteristics and entry criteria of randomised, controlled studies of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS:A systematic literature review was performed using predefined inclusion criteria to identify randomised...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rahman MU,Buchanan J,Doyle MK,Hsia EC,Gathany T,Parasuraman S,Aletaha D,Matteson EL,Conaghan PG,Keystone E,van der Heijde D,Smolen JS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of immune complexes (IC) isolated from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) sera with polyethylene glycol and gel filtration on the chemotaxis and Fc receptor function of healthy monocytes was examined. Even at a low protein concentration (1 microgram/ml = 1 mg/l) ICs inhibit monocyte chemotaxis. ICs from pat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lukács K,Kávai M,Bányai A,Sonkoly I,Végh E,Szabó G,Szegedi G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synovial surface in rabbit knees was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to define normal surface contour, cell shape, and interstitial exposure. Comparison was made between specimens excised before immersion fixation (I), fixed in situ by vascular perfusion (V) before excision, or fixed in situ under a...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McDonald JN,Levick JR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate coronary atherosclerosis in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and control subjects using coronary CT angiography (CCTA). METHODS:Ninety consecutive patients with PsA (male: 56(62.2%); 50.3±11.1 years) were recruited. 240 controls (male: 137(57.1%); 49.6±10.7 years) without known cardiovasc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shen J,Wong KT,Cheng IT,Shang Q,Li EK,Wong P,Kun EW,Law MY,Yip R,Yim I,Ying S,Li M,Li TK,Wong CK,Zhu TY,Lee JJ,Chang M,Lee AP,Tam LS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare glucose tolerance and parameters of insulin sensitivity and β-cell function between chronic glucocorticoid (GC)-using and GC-naive patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Frequently sampled 75 g oral glucose tolerance tests were performed in 58 chronic GC-using and 82 GC-naive patients w...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hoes JN,van der Goes MC,van Raalte DH,van der Zijl NJ,den Uyl D,Lems WF,Lafeber FP,Jacobs JW,Welsing PM,Diamant M,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the accuracy of ultrasonography (US) for bone erosion detection in different areas of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints with multislice CT as the reference method. Second, to establish the necessary bone volume loss on CT for US to reliably detect it as an erosion, and f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Døhn UM,Terslev L,Szkudlarek M,Hansen MS,Hetland ML,Hansen A,Madsen OR,Hasselquist M,Møller J,Ostergaard M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of meloxicam (MXC) and diclofenac (DCF) on the recruitment of leucocytes during acute experimental arthritis. METHODS:Rabbits with antigen-induced arthritis were treated with MXC, DCF, or not treated. After 48 hours, synovial fluid (SF) leucocyte influx and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) lev...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： López-Armada MJ,Sánchez-Pernaute O,Largo R,Diez-Ortego I,Palacios I,Egido J,Herrero-Beaumont G

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Compare the radiographic progression of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients treated with infliximab (INF) versus historical controls (Herne cohort, HC) never treated with tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-blockers over 8 years. METHODS:Patients were selected based on the availability of lateral cervical and lumb...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Baraliakos X,Haibel H,Listing J,Sieper J,Braun J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Notch signalling pathways are critical for angiogenesis and endothelial cell (EC) fate; however the mechanisms regulating these processes in the inflamed joint remain to be elucidated. Here, we examine whether Notch signalling mediates vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and angiopoietin 2 (Ang2)-induce...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gao W,Sweeney C,Walsh C,Rooney P,McCormick J,Veale DJ,Fearon U

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of infliximab plus methotrexate (MTX) compared with placebo plus MTX on bone loss in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a double-blind randomised study design. Further, to explore the associations between bone loss and markers of RA disease. METHODS:All 20 patients with RA...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Haugeberg G,Conaghan PG,Quinn M,Emery P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case is described of a 57 year old woman with polyarthritis fulfilling the 1987 revised criteria of the American Rheumatism Association for rheumatoid arthritis, accompanied by clinical carrier state infection of HTLV-I. Anti-HTLV-I IgM antibodies were detected by western blot analysis in her synovial fluid and se...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ijichi S,Matsuda T,Maruyama I,Izumihara T,Kojima K,Niimura T,Maruyama Y,Sonoda S,Yoshida A,Osame M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To transcribe the treat-to-target (T2T) recommendations into a version that can be easily understood by patients. A core group of physicians and patients involved in the elaboration of the T2T recommendations produced a draft version of the T2T recommendations in lay language. This version was discussed, changed and r...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Wit MP,Smolen JS,Gossec L,van der Heijde DM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is less common among men than women, and sex hormones have been suggested to play a part in the pathogenesis. Lower levels of testosterone have been demonstrated in men with RA, but it is not known if these changes precede the disease. METHODS:In a nested case-control study, using ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pikwer M,Giwercman A,Bergström U,Nilsson JÅ,Jacobsson LT,Turesson C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred consecutive admissions to an acute geriatric unit were examined for clinical and radiographic evidence of osteoarthritis (OA) and articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC). Thirty-four patients had ACC. This was age related, the prevalence rising from 15% in patients aged 65-74 years to 44% in patients over 84 yea...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wilkins E,Dieppe P,Maddison P,Evison G

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effect of an intra-articular presentation of stress (heat shock) proteins (hsp) on joint inflammation. METHODS:Wistar rats were sensitised with a suspension of heat killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis in oil in the scruff of the neck and challenged intra-articularly with stress protein or M tube...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Winrow VR,Ragno S,Morris CJ,Colston MJ,Mascagni P,Leoni F,Gromo G,Coates AR,Blake DR

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the course of adjuvant arthritis in rats by measuring clinical, biochemical, and histological parameters on day 36 after induction (representing the secondary reaction) and on day 171, which is at the stage of permanent deformity. The effect of SR 41319, a new diphosphonate, was evaluated on days 36 and 171...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Barbier A,Breliére JC,Remandet B,Roncucci R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) treatment is clinically efficacious in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and leads to improvement of spinal inflammation, as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. It is unclear whether anti-TNF treatment affects chronic spinal changes in AS. OBJECTIVES:To a...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Baraliakos X,Listing J,Rudwaleit M,Brandt J,Sieper J,Braun J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To further explore deiodinase iodothyronine type 2 (DIO2) as a therapeutic target in osteoarthritis (OA) by studying the effects of forced mechanical loading on in vivo joint cartilage tissue homeostasis and the modulating effect herein of Dio2 deficiency. METHODS:Wild-type and C57BL/6-Dio2(-/-) -mice were s...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bomer N,Cornelis FM,Ramos YF,den Hollander W,Storms L,van der Breggen R,Lakenberg N,Slagboom PE,Meulenbelt I,Lories RJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the prevalence of microalbuminuria, urinary albumin excretion (UAE) between 20-200 micrograms/min, in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients without clinical renal disease, and to discover if this could predict the development of renal disease. METHODS:This study made six monthly measure...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Batlle-Gualda E,Martínez AC,Guerra RA,Pascual E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients presented with septal fasciitis and panniculitis, associated with clinical and laboratory features which precluded straight-forward classification into eosinophilic fasciitis, localised scleroderma, or lupus erythematosus profundus. Treatment with cimetidine caused the remission of cutaneous manifestati...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Naschitz JE,Yeshurun D,Rosner I,Abrahamson JE,Misselevitch I,Boss JH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00