abstract：:Members of the ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs) family are known to influence development, angiogenesis, coagulation and progression of arthritis. As proteinases their substrates include the von Willebrand factor precursor and extracellular matrix components such as procollagen, ...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Jones GC,Riley GP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse events of opioids may restrict their use in non-cancer pain. Analysis of the incidence of common adverse events in trials conducted in non-cancer pain has usually been limited to opioids used to treat severe pain according to the WHO three-step ladder. To examine the incidence of common adverse events of opioi...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Moore RA,McQuay HJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been some evidence that Behçet's disease (BD) has a significant autoimmune component but the molecular identity of putative autoantigens has not been well characterized. In the initial analysis of the autoantibody profile in 39 Chinese BD patients, autoantibodies to cellular proteins were uncovered in 23% as...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Lu Y,Ye P,Chen SL,Tan EM,Chan EK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinic studies, altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function has been associated with fibromyalgia, a syndrome characterised by chronic widespread body pain. These results may be explained by the associated high rates of psychological distress and somatisation. We address the hypothesis that the latte...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： McBeth J,Chiu YH,Silman AJ,Ray D,Morriss R,Dickens C,Gupta A,Macfarlane GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineutrophil antibodies are well recognized causes of neutropenia, producing both quantitative and qualitative defects in neutrophils and increased risk for infection. In primary autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) of infancy, a moderate to severe neutropenia is the sole abnormality; it is rarely associated with serious in...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Capsoni F,Sarzi-Puttini P,Zanella A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of T cells in the synovial membrane is the crucial step in the pathophysiology of the inflammatory processes characterizing juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). In this study, we evaluated the expression and the pathogenetic role in oligoarticular JIA of a CXC chemokine involved in the directional mig...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Martini G,Zulian F,Calabrese F,Bortoli M,Facco M,Cabrelle A,Valente M,Zacchello F,Agostini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of endothelin-1 (ET-1)-induced nitric oxide (NO) production, MMP-1 production and MMP-13 production was investigated in human osteoarthritis chondrocytes. The cells were isolated from human articular cartilage obtained at surgery and were cultured in the absence or presence of ET-1 with or without inhibi...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Manacu CA,Martel-Pelletier J,Roy-Beaudry M,Pelletier JP,Fernandes JC,Shipkolye FS,Mitrovic DR,Moldovan F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotropic effects are now described for the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (or statins) that might have utility in the context of chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease. Here we discuss the pharmacology and established uses of statins and in this context describe potential anti-inflammat...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： McCarey DW,Sattar N,McInnes IB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a member of the family of spondyloarthropathies, which are inflammatory arthritides largely involving the axial skeleton and commonly accompanied by peripheral arthritis. Genetic factors, particularly the presence of HLA-B27, are major contributors to the susceptibility for AS. Despite s...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Peloso PM,Braun J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of spontaneous autoimmunity in inbred strains of rodents has allowed us to investigate the molecular basis of chronic inflammatory disease in ways that would not be possible in humans. Recently, two new mouse models of autoimmune inflammatory polyarthritis have been reported that demonstrate how altera...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Cope AP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the therapeutic potential and mechanism of action of IFN-beta protein for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Collagen-induced arthritis was induced in DBA/1 mice. At the first clinical sign of disease, mice were given daily injections of recombinant mouse IFN-beta or saline for 7 days. Disease...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： van Holten J,Reedquist K,Sattonet-Roche P,Smeets TJ,Plater-Zyberk C,Vervoordeldonk MJ,Tak PP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports of the use of HLA-B27/peptide tetrameric complexes to study peptide-specific CD8+ T cells in HLA-B27+-related diseases are rare. To establish HLA-B27 tetramers we first compared the function of HLA-B27 tetramers with HLA-A2 tetramers by using viral epitopes. HLA-B27 and HLA-A2 tetramers loaded with immunodomin...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Appel H,Kuon W,Kuhne M,Wu P,Kuhlmann S,Kollnberger S,Thiel A,Bowness P,Sieper J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain remains an important public health need with greater impact on the US economy than most other chronic conditions. Current pain management is largely limited to opioids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, indicating a gap in the translation of new knowledge to the development of improved pain treatm...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Witter J,Dionne RA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is a chronic inflammatory disease bearing all the hallmarks of rheumatoid arthritis, e.g. polyarthritis, synovitis, and subsequent cartilage/bone erosions. One feature of the disease contributing to joint damage is synovial hyperplasia. The factors responsible for the hyperplasia are u...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Tu-Rapp H,Hammermüller A,Mix E,Kreutzer HJ,Goerlich R,Köhler H,Nizze H,Thiesen HJ,Ibrahim SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Sa antibodies are detected in the serum of 20-47% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. These antibodies have a high degree of specificity for the disease, and appear to identify a subset of early rheumatoid arthritis patients destined to have aggressive and destructive disease. It has recently been confirmed th...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： El-Gabalawy HS,Wilkins JA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were initiated to determine the protein expression patterns of fibroblast-like synovial (FLS) cells derived from the synovia of rheumatoid arthritis patients. The cellular proteins were separated by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the in-gel digested proteins were analyzed by...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Dasuri K,Antonovici M,Chen K,Wong K,Standing K,Ens W,El-Gabalawy H,Wilkins JA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of cytokines and growth factors use the Janus kinase (Jak)-STAT signaling pathway to transmit extracellular signals to the nucleus. STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription) are latent cytoplasmic transcription factors. There are seven mammalian STATs and they have critical, nonredundant rol...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Ivashkiv LB,Hu X

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is known to be involved in late-onset chronic polyarthritis as HTLV-I-associated arthropathy. However, it is unclear whether HTLV-I infection could modify the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis (OA). In this study we compared several inflammatory cytokines, such as C-termina...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Yoshihara Y,Tsukazaki T,Osaki M,Nakashima M,Hasui K,Shindo H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in lymphocyte signaling cascades are thought to play an important role in the development of autoimmune disease. However, the large amount of cellular material needed for standard biochemical assessment of signaling status has made it difficult to evaluate putative abnormalities completely using primary ...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Grammer AC,Fischer R,Lee O,Zhang X,Lipsky PE

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and possible efficacy of IFN-beta-1a for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Twenty-two patients with active RA were enrolled in a phase II randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 30 microg IFN-beta-1a by weekly self-injection f...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Genovese MC,Chakravarty EF,Krishnan E,Moreland LW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irreversible destruction of joint structures is a major feature of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Fibrillar collagens in bone, cartilage and other soft tissues are critical for optimal joint form and function. Several approaches can be used to ascertain the role of collagenases, matrix metalloproteinases, in...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Krane SM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory T cells display phenotypic heterogeneity. Surface antigens previously regarded as exclusive markers of naive T cells, such as L-selectin (CD62L), can also be detected on some memory T cells. Moreover, a fraction of CD45RO+ (positive for the short human isoform of CD45) memory T cells reverts to the CD45RA+ (pos...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Lamprecht P,Erdmann A,Mueller A,Csernok E,Reinhold-Keller E,Holl-Ulrich K,Feller AC,Bruehl H,Gross WL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis results from a loss of bone mass and bone structure such that the bone becomes weak and fractures with very little trauma. Until recently, the approved osteoporosis therapies prevented more bone loss by altering osteoclast activity and lifespan. Recently, attention has turned away from osteoclast inhibiti...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Lane NE,Kelman A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An impaired differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells towards Th2 cells may contribute to the chronic tissue-destructive T-cell activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells into memory Th2 cells by IL-7 in comparison with that by IL-4 was studied in RA patients and in healthy controls. ...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： van Roon JA,Glaudemans CA,Bijlsma JW,Lafeber FP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines play an essential role in the progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In the present study we examined the expression and regulatory mechanisms of IFN-gamma inducible protein (IP)-10 in RA synovitis. RA synovial fluid contained greater amounts of IP-10 than did synovial fluid from patients with osteoarthr...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Hanaoka R,Kasama T,Muramatsu M,Yajima N,Shiozawa F,Miwa Y,Negishi M,Ide H,Miyaoka H,Uchida H,Adachi M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and inflammatory responses are modulated by a bidirectional communication between the neuroendocrine and immune system. Many lines of research have established the numerous routes by which the immune system and the central nervous system (CNS) communicate. The CNS signals the immune system through hormona...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Eskandari F,Webster JI,Sternberg EM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial biomarker analysis in rheumatoid arthritis can be used to evaluate drug effect in clinical trials of novel therapeutic agents. Previous studies of synovial gene expression for these studies have mainly relied on histological methods including immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. To increase the rel...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Boyle DL,Rosengren S,Bugbee W,Kavanaugh A,Firestein GS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes play several critical roles in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. They are the source of the rheumatoid factors and anticitrullinated protein antibodies, which contribute to immune complex formation and complement activation in the joints. B cells are also very efficient antigen-presenting cells, ...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Silverman GJ,Carson DA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behçet's disease is characterized by recurrent aphthous stomatitis, uveitis, genital ulcers, and skin lesions. The role of the HLA-B*51 gene has been confirmed in recent years, although its contribution to the overall genetic susceptibility to Behçet's disease was estimated to be only 19%. The production of a variety ...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Hirohata S,Kikuchi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of autoantibodies in human sera is an important approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with autoimmune conditions. To meet market demands, manufacturers have developed a wide variety of easy to use and cost-effective diagnostic kits that are designed to detect a variety of human serum autoa...

journal_title：Arthritis research & therapy

authors： Fritzler MJ,Wiik A,Fritzler ML,Barr SG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00