Absence of chromosome damage in human lymphocytes exposed to allopurinol and oxipurinol.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy may be associated with opportunistic infections (OIs). OBJECTIVE:To describe the spectrum of non-tuberculosis OIs associated with anti-TNF therapy and identify their risk factors. METHODS:A 3-year national French registry (RATIO) collected all cases of OI in patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salmon-Ceron D,Tubach F,Lortholary O,Chosidow O,Bretagne S,Nicolas N,Cuillerier E,Fautrel B,Michelet C,Morel J,Puéchal X,Wendling D,Lemann M,Ravaud P,Mariette X,RATIO group.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), vasculitis, and aortic valve incompetence of the histologically nonspecific type is described. Valve replacement was undertaken, and an excellent haemodynamic result was achieved. Both arthritis and vasculitis subsequently remitted. Valve replacement can be successfully perfor...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Liew M,Wilson D,Horton D,Fleming A

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

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：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：OBJECTIVE:To compare arterial haemodynamics in adults with long-term juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) to that of healthy controls, and explore the influence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors and disease characteristics on arterial haemodynamics plus coronary artery calcification. METHODS:87 JIA patients (m...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Aulie HA,Selvaag AM,Günther A,Lilleby V,Molberg Ø,Hartmann A,Holdaas H,Flatø B

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the presence of anti-PDGFR-alpha antibodies by immunological methods in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS:Fifty-eight women diagnosed with SSc and 36 healthy women controls were included. IgG anti-PDGFR-alpha were measured by ELISA and immunoblot. Associations with clinical and immu...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Balada E,Simeón-Aznar CP,Ordi-Ros J,Rosa-Leyva M,Selva-O'Callaghan A,Pardos-Gea J,Fonollosa-Pla V,Vilardell-Tarrés M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study further the temporal clustering of ankylosing enthesopathy (AE) noted originally during a study of the influence of mouse major histocompatibility complex (MHC) H-2 and transgenic HLA-B27 on the frequency of AE. METHODS:The relationship between maternal age at littering and frequency of AE was analy...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Weinreich S,Hoebe B,Ivanyi P

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:IL-23 has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of Behcet's disease (BD) through promoting IL-17 production. This study examined whether IL-23R polymorphisms were associated with susceptibility to this disease in a Chinese Han population. METHODS:Four single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), rs7517847, r...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jiang Z,Yang P,Hou S,Du L,Xie L,Zhou H,Kijlstra A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current drug development programs produce high quality data on the efficacy of new drugs, substantial data on safety, but little data on actual applicability of the new product compared to standard of care. After successful registration and launch, such data require years to accumulate and often remain incomplete. Thi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Boers M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the feasibility of assessing patellofemoral osteoarthritis using the 'skyline' view and to compare its reproducibility with the standard lateral view. METHODS:Fifty patients attending a rheumatology outpatient department with osteoarthritis of the knee had standard radiographs taken of both kne...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jones AC,Ledingham J,McAlindon T,Regan M,Hart D,MacMillan PJ,Doherty M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral and axial bone mass and fracture incidence were studied in a group of 104 postmenopausal patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients were divided into non-corticosteroid and low dose corticosteroid treated groups after elimination of patients with concomitant disease or therapy which might affect bone...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verstraeten A,Dequeker J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of exacerbations in the disease course was investigated in 110 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who were studied prospectively at our institute for lupus research. At the time of disease onset and diagnosis the male patients were much older than the female patients (about 10 years); exace...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Swaak AJ,Nossent JC,Bronsveld W,van Rooyen A,Nieuwenhuys EJ,Theuns L,Smeenk RJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cellular infiltrate and expression of cytokines, chemokines, and cell adhesion molecules as a result of therapeutic interventions in rheumatoid arthritis can be demonstrated in the synovial membrane. However, before synovial tissue analysis can be used as an outcome measure in such studies, standardisation ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Smith MD,Baeten D,Ulfgren AK,McInnes IB,Fitzgerald O,Bresnihan B,Tak PP,Veale D,OMERACT synovial special interests group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals were injected intra-articularly with antigen after prior immunization with that antigen in Freund's incomplete adjuvant in order to precipitate immune complexes in the surfaces of menisci, ligaments, and cartilage. On reimmunization with antigen in Freund's complete adjuvant 10 weeks later, generally an arthri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fox A,Glynn LE

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:Sera from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), patients with infectious mononucleosis (IM), and blood donors were tested by indirect immunofluorescence for the presence of antikeratin antibody (AKA), antibody to cytoskeletal intermediate filaments of prekeratin or vimentin type (AIFA) and antiperinuclear factor (A...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kataaha PK,Mortazavi-Milani SM,Russell G,Holborow EJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic arthritis is associated with a definite morbidity which may be related to a delay in diagnosis and hence treatment. The cases of three patients with rheumatoid arthritis and chronic chest disease where the joint sepsis was not the predominant feature are presented. The responsible organism was Streptococcus pne...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Morley PK,Hull RG,Hall MA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the ability of technetium-99m hexamethyl propylene amineoxime (HMPAO) labelled lymphocyte scintigraphy to quantify synovial inflammation, and to analyse the kinetics of lymphocyte retention in the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS:After isolation of the lymphocytes, the cel...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jorgensen C,Couret I,Bologna C,Rossi M,Sany J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Qualitative differences in synovitis between the cartilage-pannus junction (CPJ) region and the adjoining suprapatellar pouch (SPP) have been reported in rheumatoid arthritis and the spondyloarthropathies. OBJECTIVE:To determine if the distribution of synovitis is the same in osteoarthritis (OA) using sensi...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rhodes LA,Conaghan PG,Radjenovic A,Grainger AJ,Emery P,McGonagle D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been found to differ from purified PMNs from normal subjects in ways that are consistent with their prior activation. However, it is currently contentious whether activated PMNs really circulate in patients ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McCarthy DA,Bernhagen J,Taylor MJ,Hamblin AS,James I,Thompson PW,Perry JD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the relevance of calpain in murine collagen induced arthritis (CIA) and to correlate the presence of m-calpain with the appearance of arthritis and cartilage destruction. METHODS:The immunohistochemical appearance and localisation of m-calpain at different stages of arthritis were analysed and ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Szomor Z,Shimizu K,Fujimori Y,Yamamoto S,Yamamuro T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To elucidate the contribution of HLA-DR-DQ haplotypes and their genotypic combinations to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis, and to evaluate the various models for HLA associated risk for the disease in a series of Finnish patients. METHODS:322 Finnish patients with rheumatoid arthritis were typed for ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Laivoranta-Nyman S,Möttönen T,Hermann R,Tuokko J,Luukkainen R,Hakala M,Hannonen P,Korpela M,Yli-Kerttula U,Toivanen A,Ilonen J,FIN-RACo Trial Group.

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether methotrexate or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) affect osteophyte formation in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:41 patients with PsA were examined for the presence of osteophytes and erosions at the metacarpophalangeal joints by high-resolution micro-CT imagin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Finzel S,Kraus S,Schmidt S,Hueber A,Rech J,Engelke K,Englbrecht M,Schett G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1978 a survey was carried out on 34 036 people in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in an epidemiological study of hyperuricaemia; 15 713 males and 18 324 females were examined by means of our health examination car. The subjects of the survey were all volunteers. The results have shown that the serum uric acid (SUA) l...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Akizuki S

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several prediction models for rapid radiological progression (RRP) in the first year of rheumatoid arthritis have been designed to aid rheumatologists in their choice of initial treatment. The association was assessed between RRP and disability and joint damage progression in 8 years. METHODS:Patients from t...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： van den Broek M,Dirven L,de Vries-Bouwstra JK,Dehpoor AJ,Goekoop-Ruiterman YP,Gerards AH,Kerstens PJ,Huizinga TW,Lems W,Allaart CF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the involvement of interleukin-1 (IL-1) in the induction or maintenance of the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) non-responsive state of chondrocytes during experimental arthritis in mouse knee joints. METHODS:To characterise IGF-1 nonresponsiveness during arthritis, we measured chondrocyte...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verschure PJ,Joosten LA,Van de Loo FA,Van den Berg WB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the nature of positional changes of humeroulnar (HU) and humeroradial (HR) joints in a cohort of 74 patients with seropositive and erosive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) followed up prospectively. METHODS:At the 15 year follow up standard anteroposterior and lateral radiographs of 148 elbow joints wer...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lehtinen JT,Kaarela K,Kauppi MJ,Belt EA,Mäenpää H,Kuusela P,Lehto MU

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Assess golimumab's long-term efficacy/safety in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS:Adults with active PsA (≥3 swollen and tender joints, active psoriasis) were randomly assigned to subcutaneous placebo, golimumab 50 mg, or golimumab 100 mg every 4 weeks (q4wks) through wk20. All patients received golimumab ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kavanaugh A,McInnes IB,Mease P,Krueger GG,Gladman D,van der Heijde D,Zhou Y,Lu J,Leu JH,Goldstein N,Beutler A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Congenital heart block (CHB) with immune cell infiltration develops in the fetus after exposure to maternal Ro/La autoantibodies. CHB-related serology has been extensively studied, but reports on immune-cell profiles of anti-Ro/La-exposed neonates are lacking. In the current study, we characterised circulatin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ivanchenko M,Thorlacius GE,Hedlund M,Ottosson V,Meneghel L,Björkander S,Ossoinak A,Tingström J,Bremme K,Sverremark-Ekström E,Gemzell-Danielsson K,Sonesson SE,Chemin K,Wahren-Herlenius M

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess survival and identify predictors of survival in patients with systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) who participated in the Scleroderma Lung Studies (SLS) I and II. METHODS:SLS I randomised 158 patients with SSc-ILD to 1  year of oral cyclophosphamide (CYC) vs placebo. SLS II rando...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Volkmann ER,Tashkin DP,Sim M,Li N,Goldmuntz E,Keyes-Elstein L,Pinckney A,Furst DE,Clements PJ,Khanna D,Steen V,Schraufnagel DE,Arami S,Hsu V,Roth MD,Elashoff RM,Sullivan KM,SLS I and SLS II study groups.

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00