Bacterial and viral superantigens: roles in autoimmunity?

abstract：:T lymphocytes expressing the gamma/delta T cell receptor and B lymphocytes expressing CD5 are known to occur in expanded numbers in the peripheral blood of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome. The cellular infiltrates for the surface phenotypic markers for alpha/beta and gamma/delta T cell receptors, CD4, CD8, CD...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Zumla A,Mathur M,Stewart J,Wilkinson L,Isenberg D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nephelometric assay of concanavalin-A binding of serum acute phase proteins (con-A binding) has been used in cross-sectional and sequential studies of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Con-A binding correlated well with blood viscosity, C-reactive protein, and other individual acute phase reactants in p...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Martin MF,Dieppe PA,Jones HE,Warren C,Whicher J,Kohn J

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study whether hand osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with increased mortality and cardiovascular events in a large community based cohort (Framingham Heart Study) in which OA, mortality and cardiovascular events have been carefully assessed. METHODS:We examined whether symptomatic (≥1 joint(s) with radio...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Haugen IK,Ramachandran VS,Misra D,Neogi T,Niu J,Yang T,Zhang Y,Felson DT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information has been collected on 10 patients, 9 with marrow depression and 1 in whom the diagnosis was presumed. Six of the 10 patients died. The sequentially recorded blood counts on at least 5 of the patients showed a downward trend of the white cell and platelet counts while D-penicillamine was still being adminis...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kay AG

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare familial inflammatory inclusion body myositis (IBM) with hereditary inclusion body myopathies and sporadic IBM. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Clinical, biological, MRI, and histological data were analysed in two siblings with inflammatory IBM and compared with those of patients with sporadic and hereditary...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ranque-Francois B,Maisonobe T,Dion E,Piette JC,Chauveheid MP,Amoura Z,Papo T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the risk of a second malignant neoplasm (SMN) and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with a history of a primary cancer diagnosis and treated with biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARD). METHODS:Among patients with RA (n=15 286) registered in the DANBIO Register ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dreyer L,Cordtz RL,Hansen IMJ,Kristensen LE,Hetland ML,Mellemkjaer L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-inflammatory effect of single doses and combinations of aspirin and commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was investigated by the polyurethane sponge implantation model of acute inflammation. Dose response curves were performed to delineate a suppressive (high) and nonsuppressive (low) dose of ea...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Garrett R,Manthey B,Vernon-Roberts B,Brooks PM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review systematically the available literature on the optimal dosage and route of administration of methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as an evidence base for generating clinical practice recommendations. METHODS:A systematic literature search was carried out in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Coc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Visser K,van der Heijde D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A recent genome-wide association study in European systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients identified three loci (PSORS1C1, TNIP1 and RHOB) as novel genetic risk factors for the disease. The aim of this study was to replicate the previously mentioned findings in a large multicentre independent SSc cohort of Cauc...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Bossini-Castillo L,Martin JE,Broen J,Simeon CP,Beretta L,Gorlova OY,Vonk MC,Ortego-Centeno N,Espinosa G,Carreira P,García de la Peña P,Oreiro N,Román-Ivorra JA,Castillo MJ,González-Gay MA,Sáez-Comet L,Castellví I,Schuer

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and twenty-one synovial fluids from the knees of patients with six different inflammatory arthropathies have been examined for the presence of cytophagocytic monocytes (CPM) and mast cells. Both cell types were seen independently in many of the fluids examined but were found together only in those patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Freemont AJ,Denton J

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the production of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP), collagenase (MMP-1), and its natural inhibitor, the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP) by diseased human tendon samples in organ culture. METHODS:Portions of tendons were excised from the shoulders of patients undergoing shoulder...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dalton S,Cawston TE,Riley GP,Bayley IJ,Hazleman BL

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding sulfasalazine to leflunomide treatment compared with switching to sulfasalazine alone in patients with RA with an inadequate response to leflunomide monotherapy. METHODS:Patients with active RA ((DAS28) >3.2) who were enrolled in the first open label phase of the...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Dougados M,Emery P,Lemmel EM,Zerbini CA,Brin S,van Riel P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To report the results of a pilot study using rituximab combined with Peg-interferon (IFN) alpha2b-ribavirin in severe refractory hepatitis C virus (HCV) related mixed cryoglobulinaemia (MC) vasculitis. METHODS:Sixteen consecutive patients with severe HCV-MC vasculitis that were resistant (n = 11) or relapse...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Saadoun D,Resche-Rigon M,Sene D,Perard L,Karras A,Cacoub P

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:The case presented is of a patient with migratory polyarthritis and serological evidence of a recent streptococcal infection, consistent with the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever, who in addition had multisystem disease manifestations. This case supports the concept that the sequelae of streptococcal infection can e...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Livneh A,Sharma K,Sewell KL,Keiser HD

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitor-1 of MMPs (TIMP-1) levels in the systemic circulation and synovial fluid (SF) of patients with RA and to compare these levels with inflammatory and collagen degradation markers. METHODS:ProMMP-1, -2, -3, -8, -9, TIMP-1, levels of MMP/alpha(2)-m...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tchetverikov I,Ronday HK,Van El B,Kiers GH,Verzijl N,TeKoppele JM,Huizinga TW,DeGroot J,Hanemaaijer R

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progression of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is partly heritable; knowledge of genetic factors may increase our understanding of the mechanisms underlying joint destruction. The activity of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway influences osteoblast differentiation. Dickkopf-1 (Dkk-1) and sclerostin (So...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： de Rooy DP,Yeremenko NG,Wilson AG,Knevel R,Lindqvist E,Saxne T,Krabben A,Leijsma MK,Daha NA,Tsonaka S,Zhernakova A,Houwing-Duistermaat JJ,Huizinga TW,Toes RE,Baeten DL,Brouwer E,van der Helm-van Mil AH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Eosinophils possess pro-inflammatory functions in asthma. However, our recent studies have suggested that innate lymphoid cells type 2 (ILC2s) and eosinophils have proresolving properties in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Nothing is known yet about the mechanisms determining the double-edged role of eosinophils....

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Andreev D,Liu M,Kachler K,Llerins Perez M,Kirchner P,Kölle J,Gießl A,Rauber S,Song R,Aust O,Grüneboom A,Kleyer A,Cañete JD,Ekici A,Ramming A,Finotto S,Schett G,Bozec A

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49 year old man is described with a polyarticular arthritis. Synovial fluid aspirated from the knee joint showed monosodium urate monohydrate and calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate by polarised light microscopy. Additionally, diphosphonate binding and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive analysis showed ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Halverson PB,Ryan LM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteotomies on 101 knees in 79 patients were assessed either prospectively or retrospectively. High tibial osteotomy was performed in 54 knees (27 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 27 with osteoarthrosis (OA)) and double (tibiofemoral) osteotomy in 47 knees (25 RA and 22 OA), and were assessed prospectively in 46 and...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Iveson JM,Longton EB,Wright V

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There are no agreed criteria for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee in population studies. The radiographic scoring system of Kellgren and Lawrence has been the system most used in the past and although other methods have been developed, comparisons have not been performed. Therefore these grading systems were ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Spector TD,Hart DJ,Byrne J,Harris PA,Dacre JE,Doyle DV

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The zinc-ZIP8-MTF1 axis induces metallothionein (MT) expression and is a catabolic regulator of experimental osteoarthritis (OA) in mice. The main aim of the current study was to explore the roles and underlying molecular mechanisms of MTs in OA pathogenesis. METHODS:Experimental OA in mice was induced by de...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Won Y,Shin Y,Chun CH,Cho Y,Ha CW,Kim JH,Chun JS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An investigator-initiated, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, treat-to-target protocol (Clinical Trials:NCT00660647) studied whether adalimumab added to methotrexate and intra-articular triamcinolone as first-line treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA) increased the frequency of low disease activity ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hørslev-Petersen K,Hetland ML,Junker P,Pødenphant J,Ellingsen T,Ahlquist P,Lindegaard H,Linauskas A,Schlemmer A,Dam MY,Hansen I,Horn HC,Ammitzbøll CG,Jørgensen A,Krintel SB,Raun J,Johansen JS,Østergaard M,Stengaard-Pe

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular damage is a key pathological process in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and accounts for significant disease-related morbidity. To determine the clinical burden of severe digital vasculopathy (SDV), we have reviewed hospital-based treatment for this important complication of SSc in a large single centre co...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Nihtyanova SI,Brough GM,Black CM,Denton CP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the risk of septic arthritis (SA) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy. METHODS:Using data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register, a prospective observational study, the authors compared the risk of SA between 11 ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Galloway JB,Hyrich KL,Mercer LK,Dixon WG,Ustianowski AP,Helbert M,Watson KD,Lunt M,Symmons DP,BSR Biologics Register.

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have reported an interaction between ever cigarette smoking and the presence of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) genotype and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk. To address the effect of dosage, a case-control study nested within two prospective cohorts to determine the...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Karlson EW,Chang SC,Cui J,Chibnik LB,Fraser PA,De Vivo I,Costenbader KH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop evidence-based European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of Behçet disease (BD) supplemented where necessary by expert opinion. METHODS:The multidisciplinary expert committee, a task force of the EULAR Standing Committee for Clinical Affairs (ESCCA), consisted ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hatemi G,Silman A,Bang D,Bodaghi B,Chamberlain AM,Gul A,Houman MH,Kötter I,Olivieri I,Salvarani C,Sfikakis PP,Siva A,Stanford MR,Stübiger N,Yurdakul S,Yazici H,EULAR Expert Committee.

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal serositis is not a widely recognised aspect of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Indeed, ascites in SLE is said to occur only when complicated by the nephrotic syndrome, congestive cardiac failure, or hepatic cirrhosis. We describe two patients who developed ascites that could be attributed to none of the...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Mier A,Weir W

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of active pulmonary and paranasal involvement in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) can be difficult. The diagnostic value of gallium-67 scintigraphy in WG is unclear. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the added diagnostic value of gallium-67 scintigraphy in patients with WG with suspected granulomat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Slart RH,Jager PL,Poot L,Piers DA,Tervaert JW,Stegeman CA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relation between anatomic changes of the synovium, the bone, the bone marrow and the cartilage to biochemical properties of the cartilage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:33 patients with RA received 3-T MRI scans of the metacarpophalangeal joints. Two independent metho...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Herz B,Albrecht A,Englbrecht M,Welsch GH,Uder M,Renner N,Schlechtweg P,Paul D,Lauer L,Engelke K,Janka R,Rech J,Schett G,Finzel S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00