Prospective study of early rheumatoid arthritis. II. Association of rheumatoid factor isotypes with fluctuations in disease activity.

abstract：:The effect of two gold(I) compounds on stability of lysosomes in vitro was studied. Lysosomes from homogenates of rat kidney cortex were isolated by differential centrifugation. These lysosomes were incubated at 37 degrees C with widely varied concentrations of sodium aurothiomalate and sodium aurothiosulphate for 5, ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Graabaek PM,Pedersen SM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the potential clinical benefit of a combination therapy. METHODS:205 patients fulfilling the ACR criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), not treated with disease modifying antirheumatoid drugs previously, with an early (< or = 1 year duration), active (Disease Activity Score (DAS) > 3.0), rhe...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dougados M,Combe B,Cantagrel A,Goupille P,Olive P,Schattenkirchner M,Meusser S,Paimela L,Rau R,Zeidler H,Leirisalo-Repo M,Peldan K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature death has been long recognised as a manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Three lines of evidence can explain why patients with RA die prematurely and why the mortality gap between patients with RA and the general population appears to widening. First, patients with RA have a higher risk of several ser...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gabriel SE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate serum interleukin (IL) 12 concentration in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), according to disease subtype, activity, and duration. IL12 has been demonstrated to prime the selective expansion of T helper (Th) cells with a Th1-type pattern of cytokine product...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gattorno M,Picco P,Vignola S,Stalla F,Buoncompagni A,Pistoia V

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three aspects of polymorphonuclear leucocyte (PMN) function were studied in 19 patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS). By 2 different techniques directed motility was found to be increased. This increase was largely due to the subgroup of patients with ocular involvement. Counts of absolute numbers of cells migrating hi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fordham JN,Davies PG,Kirk A,Currey HL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified regular thermal patterns over normal knee, ankle, and elbow joints and demonstrate how synovitis affecting these joints may be identified by alteration or loss of the thermal pattern. Sixty healthy volunteers were thermographed on a total of 190 occasions, and 614 out of 618 joints conformed to the ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salisbury RS,Parr G,De Silva M,Hazleman BL,Page-Thomas DP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An explant method for the isolation of fibroblasts from adult human tendon is described. Cells were successfully isolated from 22 out of 27 common biceps tendons obtained from cadaveric donors (age range 11-83 years). The fibroblasts could be maintained in culture using standard methods and morphologically resembled t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Chard MD,Wright JK,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the performance of the American-European Consensus Group (AECG) and the newly proposed American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) in a well-characterised sicca cohort, given ongoing efforts to resolve discrepancies and weaknesses in the systems. METH...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rasmussen A,Ice JA,Li H,Grundahl K,Kelly JA,Radfar L,Stone DU,Hefner KS,Anaya JM,Rohrer M,Gopalakrishnan R,Houston GD,Lewis DM,Chodosh J,Harley JB,Hughes P,Maier-Moore JS,Montgomery CG,Rhodus NL,Farris AD,Segal BM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether abnormalities in the function of the autonomic nervous system are associated with oral and ocular dryness in rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS:Pupillography was done using an infrared light reflection method (IRIS) to measure both parasympathetic function (constriction latency and the latenc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Barendregt PJ,van der Heijde GL,Breedveld FC,Markusse HM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiological development from normal bone of geodes and subsequent fractures in phalanges of two adjacent fingers is described in a patient with classical rheumatoid arthritis. Presentation was as a septic, discharging focus, but infection was excluded; the pathology is described. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lowthian PJ,Calin A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with Portuguese familial amyloid polyneuropathy who developed haemarthroses secondary to pathological fractures is described. Amyloid material was demonstrated on bone biopsy and confirmed immunohistochemically to be transthyretin (prealbumin). Although amyloid deposits in bone have been described in other t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Allard SA,King RH,Thomas PK,Bourke BE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine histologic and gene expression features of clinical improvement in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc; scleroderma). METHODS:Fifty-eight forearm biopsies were evaluated from 26 individuals with dcSSc in two clinical trials. Histologic/immunophenotypic assessments of glob...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Showalter K,Spiera R,Magro C,Agius P,Martyanov V,Franks JM,Sharma R,Geiger H,Wood TA,Zhang Y,Hale CR,Finik J,Whitfield ML,Orange DE,Gordon JK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and forty unrelated British Caucasoid patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been HLA typed for class I and class II antigens. Analyses of HLA antigen associations were performed on the overall group and in patient subsets selected according to particular disease parameters or sex, or both. The resu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jaraquemada D,Ollier W,Awad J,Young A,Silman A,Roitt IM,Corbett M,Hay F,Cosh JA,Maini RN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the influence of age on the effectiveness and tolerance of antitumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:730 patients of the Dutch Rheumatoid Arthritis Monitoring (DREAM) register were categorised into three groups according to their age at initiatio...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Radovits BJ,Kievit W,Fransen J,van de Laar MA,Jansen TL,van Riel PL,Laan RF

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) antagonists (anti-TNFα) are available to treat rheumatoid arthritis. All of these have demonstrated considerable efficacy in placebo controlled trials, but few head-to-head comparisons exist to date. This work's objective is to estimate the relative efficacy among ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Schmitz S,Adams R,Walsh CD,Barry M,FitzGerald O

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are the most predictive factor for the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Epitope spreading towards more citrullinated epitopes occurs before the onset of RA. Here, the authors investigated whether specific epitope recognition allows the identification of spe...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Willemze A,Böhringer S,Knevel R,Levarht EW,Stoeken-Rijsbergen G,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,van der Helm-van Mil AH,Huizinga TW,Toes RE,Trouw LA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chondroitin sulfate 800 mg/day (CS) pharmaceutical-grade in the management of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis consistent with the European Medicines Agency guideline. METHODS:A prospective, randomised, 6-month, 3-arm, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo and celecoxib (200 mg/day)-controlled trial assessing ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Reginster JY,Dudler J,Blicharski T,Pavelka K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of certolizumab pegol (CZP) on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to interpret these results using number needed to treat (NNT), and associations between PRO responses and longer term outcomes. METHODS:A total of 619 patients with active RA were randomised...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Strand V,Smolen JS,van Vollenhoven RF,Mease P,Burmester GR,Hiepe F,Khanna D,Nikaï E,Coteur G,Schiff M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of combining monthly intravenous methotrexate (IV MTX) with monthly IV cyclophosphamide (CYTX; given on the same day) for the treatment of children who develop recurrent diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus during or after the s...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lehman TJ,Edelheit BS,Onel KB

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human osteoarthritic (OA) chondrocytes were previously classified into L (low)- and H (high)-OA according to matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) basal levels and interleukin 1beta (IL1beta) inducibility. In H-OA chondrocytes, the regulatory proteins p130(cas) and nuclear matrix protein 4 (NMP4) acting on th...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fan Z,Tardif G,Hum D,Duval N,Pelletier JP,Martel-Pelletier J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of anticardiolipin antibodies was evaluated in 70 children with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), in 25 adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis, in 42 healthy children and in 40 adult controls. Thirty seven (53%) patients with JCA were positive for IgG or IgM anticardiolipin antibodies, or both, and 30...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Caporali R,Ravelli A,De Gennaro F,Neirotti G,Montecucco C,Martini A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) The phagocytosis of human IgG, IgM, and C3 by granulocytes from various rheumatoid and nonrheumatoid sera and synovial fluids (SF) was investigated by direct examination of the patient's leucocytes and indirect testing by incubation of normal donor leucocytes with various sera and SF. (2) In rheumatoid arthritis (...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Cats A,Lafeber GJ,Klein F

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare effectiveness of treatment with secukinumab (SEC) with that of alternative tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) after withdrawal from one or more TNFis. METHODS:Patients diagnosed as having axSpA in the Swiss Clinical Quality Management cohort ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Micheroli R,Tellenbach C,Scherer A,Bürki K,Niederman K,Nissen MJ,Zufferey P,Exer P,Möller B,Kyburz D,Ciurea A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse the functional response of p53 in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASF) in vitro and in vivo and to investigate whether activation of p53 modulates the destructive process of RASF. METHODS:RASF and controls grown on chamber slides were either directly examined with DO7 anti-p53 antibodi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Seemayer CA,Kuchen S,Neidhart M,Kuenzler P,Rihosková V,Neumann E,Pruschy M,Aicher WK,Müller-Ladner U,Gay RE,Michel BA,Firestein GS,Gay S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate changes in bone mineral density (BMD) in the hands, hip and spine after 1 and 2 years of follow-up, in relation to antirheumatic and antiresorptive therapies and disease and demographic variables in patients with recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Changes in BMD measured in metacarp...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Güler-Yüksel M,Allaart CF,Goekoop-Ruiterman YP,de Vries-Bouwstra JK,van Groenendael JH,Mallée C,de Bois MH,Breedveld FC,Dijkmans BA,Lems WF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of observations have led to the hypothesis that normal intestinal microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis may harbour, for genetic reasons, bacteria with cell walls capable of inducing arthritis. Differences occur between bacterial species, and even between strains of a single species, because some c...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Toivanen P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by identifying novel, disease specific autoantibodies. METHODS:Total protein preparations from synovial membranes were separated electrophoretically and immunoblotted. Sera from RA patients were screened for predominant immunoreact...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bläss S,Specker C,Lakomek HJ,Schneider EM,Schwochau M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:High resolution ultrasound (HRUS) was used to investigate the effects of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) blockade on pannus formation and vascularisation of small finger joints in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:Five patients with active RA were treated with etanercept, a solu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hau M,Kneitz C,Tony HP,Keberle M,Jahns R,Jenett M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine whether late apoptotic cell material directly induces autoantibodies characteristic of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to investigate the innate recognition pathways involved. METHODS:B6, B6.MyD88(-/-), B6.TLR7(-/-) and B6.TLR9(-/-) mice were subcutaneou...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Pan ZJ,Maier S,Schwarz K,Azbill J,Akira S,Uematsu S,Farris AD

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since approval of tocilizumab (TCZ) for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), interleukin 6 (IL-6) pathway inhibition was evaluated in trials of TCZ and other agents targeting the IL-6 receptor and ligand in various RA populations and other inflammatory diseases. Thi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smolen JS,Schoels MM,Nishimoto N,Breedveld FC,Burmester GR,Dougados M,Emery P,Ferraccioli G,Gabay C,Gibofsky A,Gomez-Reino JJ,Jones G,Kvien TK,Murakami M,Betteridge N,Bingham CO 3rd,Bykerk V,Choy EH,Combe B,Cutolo M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00