New therapies for sepsis: focus on the interleukin (IL)12 family member IL27.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:B lymphocytes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of lupus and other autoimmune diseases, resulting in the introduction of B cell-directed therapies. Epratuzumab, a humanised anti-CD22 monoclonal antibody, is currently in clinical trials, although its effects on patients' B cells are not completely under...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jacobi AM,Goldenberg DM,Hiepe F,Radbruch A,Burmester GR,Dörner T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and periodontal disease (PD) are characterised by dysregulation of the host inflammatory response, resulting in soft and hard connective tissue destruction. AS has been related to other inflammatory diseases, however, there is a paucity of data on whether AS is associated with infl...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pischon N,Pischon T,Gülmez E,Kröger J,Purucker P,Kleber BM,Landau H,Jost-Brinkmann PG,Schlattmann P,Zernicke J,Burmester GR,Bernimoulin JP,Buttgereit F,Detert J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain sequences present in the hypervariable region of human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 known as the shared epitope (SE) are hypothesised to increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), whereas alleles encoding aspartic acid at position 70 (D70 alleles) may have a protective effect. METHODS:Patient H...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shadick NA,Heller JE,Weinblatt ME,Maher NE,Cui J,Ginsburg G,Coblyn J,Anderson R,Solomon DH,Roubenoff R,Parker A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the circulating serum concentrations of nerve growth factor (NGF) and compare them with indices of disease activity in juvenile chronic arthritis. METHODS:NGF concentrations were evaluated with a two site immunoenzymatic assay (ELISA), in 17 children with systemic, 39 with polyarticular, and 24 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Falcini F,Matucci Cerinic M,Lombardi A,Generini S,Pignone A,Tirassa P,Ermini M,Lepore L,Partsch G,Aloe L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the expression of the natural killer (NK) antigen CD56, and T cell receptor delta chain antigen (TCR delta), expressed on the gamma delta T cell subset, in patients with scleroderma, and to correlate levels of expression with clinical characteristics. METHODS:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (P...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Holcombe RF,Baethge BA,Wolf RE,Betzing KW,Stewart RM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effects of smoking on cartilage loss and pain at the knee in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS:159 men with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis who participated in a 30-month, prospective, natural history study of knee osteoarthritis were examined. The more symptomatic knee was imaged ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Amin S,Niu J,Guermazi A,Grigoryan M,Hunter DJ,Clancy M,LaValley MP,Genant HK,Felson DT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare inflammation as assessed by ultrasound between patients with the subset erosive hand osteoarthritis (EOA) versus non-EOA. METHODS:Consecutive hand osteoarthritis (HOA) patients (fulfilling ACR criteria) were included. Eighteen interphalangeal joints were scored on radiographs using the Verbruggen-...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kortekaas MC,Kwok WY,Reijnierse M,Huizinga TW,Kloppenburg M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Based upon findings in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, the genetic contribution of the VTCN1 region to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility and anticitrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) status was investigated. VTCN1 is known to play a pivotal role in regulation of the immune system and, in soluble form, h...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Daha NA,Lie BA,Trouw LA,Stoeken G,Schonkeren JJ,Ding B,Kvien TK,Schilham MW,Padyukov L,Huizinga TW,Toes R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adherent cells remaining after short-term culture of synovial fluid and synovial membrane cells from rheumatoid and non-rheumatoid patients were examined for the presence of a productive virus infection and for various viral antigens. Labelling was carried out with 3H-thymidine and 3H-uridine followed by sucrose d...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hart H,Norval M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the disease-modifying effects of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibition in preclinical models of systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS:We studied the effects of PDE4 inhibition in a prevention and a treatment model of bleomycin-induced skin fibrosis, in the topoisomerase mouse model as well as in ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Maier C,Ramming A,Bergmann C,Weinkam R,Kittan N,Schett G,Distler JHW,Beyer C

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary deficiencies of early complement components have usually been associated with the development of rheumatic diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), while terminal component deficiency is well known to predispose to recurrent neisserial infection. In contrast, only recently have patients been report...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wisnieski JJ,Naff GB,Pensky J,Sorin SB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the stability and the degree of variation of antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) results over time in a large cohort of well evaluated aPL positive patients; and to analyse factors contributing to aPL variation and the validity of aPL in a real world setting in which aPL tests are done in multiple la...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Erkan D,Derksen WJ,Kaplan V,Sammaritano L,Pierangeli SS,Roubey R,Lockshin MD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the long term prognosis in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). METHODS:Forty five of 70 patients who had participated in a three week trial six years earlier completed again the same questionnaires used previously. RESULTS:Most symptoms had remained stable. Pain had increased, but some aspects of q...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Baumgartner E,Finckh A,Cedraschi C,Vischer TL

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this work was to assess the feasibility of using dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI of bone marrow oedema, to compare it with conventional marrow oedema scoring systems, and to determine the effects of anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha therapy. METHODS:The wrist and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) join...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hodgson R,Grainger A,O'Connor P,Barnes T,Connolly S,Moots R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pachydermoperiostosis characterised by the presence of finger clubbing, periostosis, sweating of hands and feet is described. Modifications of capillaroscopic pattern and of arteriovenous anastomoses are reported. The periungual border and finger tip tissue showed diffuse endothelial hyperplasia, hyalinosis,...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Matucci-Cerinic M,Cinti S,Morroni M,Lotti T,Nuzzaci G,Lucente E,di Lollo S,Ceruso M,Cagnoni M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens are bacterial, viral, or retroviral proteins which can activate specifically a large proportion of T cells. In contrast with classical peptide antigen recognition, superantigens do not require processing to small peptides but act as complete or partially processed proteins. They can bind to major histoco...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Acha-Orbea H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical management of adults with osteoarthritis (OA) who require non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) must be decided after assessing prevalent gastrointestinal (GI) and cardiovascular (CV) risks in the individual patient. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the GI and CV risk profile of patients with OA who r...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lanas A,Tornero J,Zamorano JL

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Systemic immunological processes are profoundly shaped by the micro-environments where antigen recognition occurs. Identifying molecular signatures distinctive of such processes is pivotal to understand pathogenic immune responses and manipulate them for therapeutic purposes. Unfortunately, direct investigat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Spreafico R,Rossetti M,van Loosdregt J,Wallace CA,Massa M,Magni-Manzoni S,Gattorno M,Martini A,Lovell DJ,Albani S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the value of power Doppler ultrasound (PDUS) in combination with routine management in a cohort of patients with very early inflammatory arthritis (IA). METHODS:50 patients with < or =12 weeks of inflammatory symptoms with or without signs had clinical, laboratory and ima...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Freeston JE,Wakefield RJ,Conaghan PG,Hensor EM,Stewart SP,Emery P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is highly prevalent in Malaysia, which has a mixed population of Malays, Chinese, and Indians. A quantitative enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine anticardiolipin antibody (aCL) levels (total immunoglobulin, IgG, and IgM) in 200 patients with SLE (164 Chine...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones HW,Ireland R,Senaldi G,Wang F,Khamashta M,Bellingham AJ,Veerapan K,Hughes GR,Vergani D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with systemic lupus erythematosus who developed pneumococcal epiglottitis is described and the literature reviewed. This infection is extremely rare in adults, and only 10 cases, none of them with SLE, have so far been reported. Epiglottitis is usually caused by Haemophilus influenzae. However, in immunocomp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shalit M,Gross DJ,Levo Y

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the pathogenesis of pneumomediastinum in polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM). PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical records of 48 patients with PM/DM were reviewed, focusing mainly on the presence of pneumomediastinum and cutaneous vasculopathy, and the chest radiographic changes. A patient with pneum...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kono H,Inokuma S,Nakayama H,Suzuki M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rheumatoid factors (RFs) and antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides (CCPs) of IgG, IgA and IgM isotype have been shown to precede disease onset by years. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate serological risk markers in first-degree relatives from multicase families in relation to genetic and environmental risk f...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ärlestig L,Mullazehi M,Kokkonen H,Rocklöv J,Rönnelid J,Dahlqvist SR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative isotype specific enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the distribution of immunoglobulin isotypes and phospholipid specificities of anticardiolipin (anti-CL) antibodies in 40 patients with one or more of the following 'antiphospholipid (anti-PL) antibody associated clinical comp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gharavi AE,Harris EN,Asherson RA,Hughes GR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comprehensive multisystem clinical assessment using the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity score (BVAS) is widely used in therapeutic studies of systemic vasculitis. Extensive use suggested a need to revise the instrument. The previous version of BVAS has been revised, according to usage and reviewed by an exper...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mukhtyar C,Lee R,Brown D,Carruthers D,Dasgupta B,Dubey S,Flossmann O,Hall C,Hollywood J,Jayne D,Jones R,Lanyon P,Muir A,Scott D,Young L,Luqmani RA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Factors contributing to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remain largely unknown although are likely to include both environmental and genetic components. Studies on murine lupus have indicated a role for an antibody that blocks binding of cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated-4 (CTLA-4) to B...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Heward J,Gordon C,Allahabadia A,Barnett AH,Franklyn JA,Gough SC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the relationship between autoantigen citrullination and different peptidylarginine deiminase (PAD) enzymes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Citrullinated autoantigens were identified by immunoblotting control and ionomycin-activated human primary neutrophil lysate with RA sera. Autoantigen ide...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Darrah E,Rosen A,Giles JT,Andrade F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse fibronectin (FN) gene polymorphisms in type II mixed cryoglobulinemic syndrome (MCsn), an immune-complex mediated systemic vasculitis linked to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and characterised by rheumatoid factor (RF) positive B-cell proliferation at high risk for the progression into non-Hodgk...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fabris M,Quartuccio L,Salvin S,Pozzato G,De Re V,Mazzaro C,Ferri C,Baldini C,De Vita S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Annual echocardiography screening is widely used in scleroderma, but the utility of longitudinal assessment is unknown. We evaluated whether change in right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) was a risk factor for mortality and development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in a cohort of scleroderma...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Shah AA,Chung SE,Wigley FM,Wise RA,Hummers LK

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00