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Arthritis Research & Therapy

Ausgabe 1/2020

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Open Access Research article

Association of circulating microRNAs with prevalent and incident knee osteoarthritis in women: the OFELY study

Jean-Charles Rousseau, Marjorie Millet, Martine Croset, Elisabeth Sornay-Rendu, Olivier Borel, Roland Chapurlat

Open Access Research article

Barriers to treatment optimization and achievement of patients’ goals: perspectives from people living with rheumatoid arthritis enrolled in the ArthritisPower registry

Kelly Gavigan, W. Benjamin Nowell, Mylene S. Serna, Jeffrey L. Stark, Mohamed Yassine, Jeffrey R. Curtis

Open Access Correction

Correction to: Management of adult-onset Still’s disease with interleukin-1 inhibitors: evidence- and consensus-based statements by a panel of Italian experts

Serena Colafrancesco, Maria Manara, Alessandra Bortoluzzi, Teodora Serban, Gerolamo Bianchi, Luca Cantarini, Francesco Ciccia, Lorenzo Dagna, Marcello Govoni, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Roberta Priori, Angelo Ravelli, Paolo Sfriso, Luigi Sinigaglia, Stefano Alivernini, Elena Baldissera, Elena Bartoloni, Alvise Berti, Serena Bugatti, Dario Camellino, Daniele Cammelli, Roberto Caporali, Francesco Caso, Elena Cavallaro, Giulio Cavalli, Michele Colaci, Luisa Costa, Gerardo di Scala, Giacomo Emmi, Micol Frassi, Roberto Gerli, Roberto Giacomelli, Elisa Gremese, Florenzo Iannone, Giovanni Lapadula, Lorenzo Leveghi, Giuseppe Lopalco, Raffaele Manna, Daniela Marotto, Alessandro Mathieu, Rossella Neri, Isabella Patisso, Matteo Piga, Leonardo Punzi, Micol Romano, Piero Ruscitti, Carlo Salvarani, Raffaele Scarpa, Rossana Scrivo, Rosaria Talarico, Elena Verrecchia, Ombretta Viapiana, Antonio Vitale, Gianfranco Vitiello

Open Access Research article

Identifying clinical subgroups in IgG4-related disease patients using cluster analysis and IgG4-RD composite score

Jieqiong Li, Yu Peng, Yuelun Zhang, Panpan Zhang, Zheng Liu, Hui Lu, Linyi Peng, Liang Zhu, Huadan Xue, Yan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zeng, Yunyun Fei, Wen Zhang

Open Access Research article

Validation of prediction models of severe disease course and non-achievement of remission in juvenile idiopathic arthritis part 2: results of the Nordic model in the Canadian cohort

Andrew Henrey, Veronika Rypdal, Martin Rypdal, Thomas Loughin, Ellen Nordal, Jaime Guzman, Roxana Bolaria, David A. Cabral, Mercedes Chan, Katherine Gross, Kristin Houghton, Kimberly Morishita, Stuart E. Turvey, Lori B. Tucker, Ross E. Petty, Susanne M. Benseler, Nicole Johnson, Nadia Luca, Paivi Miettunen, Heinrike Schmeling, Janet Ellsworth, Dax G. Rumsey, Kerstin Gerhold, Kiem Oen, Alan M. Rosenberg, Roberta A. Berard, Maggie Larché, Bonnie Cameron, Brian M. Feldman, Debbie Feldman, Ronald M. Laxer, Deborah M. Levy, Rayfel Schneider, Earl Silverman, Lynn Spiegel, Shirley M. Tse, Rae S. M. Yeung, Ciaran M. Duffy, Michele Gibbon, Roman Jurencak, Johannes Roth, Karen Watanabe Duffy, Anne-Laure Chetaille, Jean Dorval, Sarah Campillo, Claire LeBlanc, Gaëlle Chédeville, Rosie Scuccimarri, Julie Barsalou, Elie Haddad, Claire St. Cyr, Gilles Boire, Alessandra Bruns, Adam M. Huber, Bianca Lang, Suzanne E. Ramsey, Elizabeth Stringer, Paul Dancey, Natalie J. Shiff

Open Access Research article

Improvement of symptoms in clinically suspect arthralgia and resolution of subclinical joint inflammation: a longitudinal study in patients that did not progress to clinical arthritis

Robin M. ten Brinck, Debbie M. Boeters, Hanna W. van Steenbergen, Annette H. M. van der Helm-van Mil

Open Access Research article

Safety results of ixekizumab with 1822.2 patient-years of exposure: an integrated analysis of 3 clinical trials in adult patients with psoriatic arthritis

Bernard Combe, Proton Rahman, Hideto Kameda, Juan D. Cañete, Gaia Gallo, Noah Agada, Wen Xu, Mark C. Genovese

Open Access Research article

Abatacept in rheumatoid arthritis: survival on drug, clinical outcomes, and their predictors—data from a large national quality register

Giovanni Cagnotto, Minna Willim, Jan-Åke Nilsson, Michele Compagno, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Carl Turesson

Open Access Research article

Investigation of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 inhibitor TAK-242 as a new potential anti-rheumatoid arthritis drug

Snigdha Samarpita, Joo Young Kim, Mahaboob Khan Rasool, Kyoung Soo Kim

Open Access Review

Assessing structural damage progression in psoriatic arthritis and its role as an outcome in research

Désirée van der Heijde, Dafna D. Gladman, Arthur Kavanaugh, Philip J. Mease

Open Access Research article

Serial magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound examinations demonstrate differential inflammatory lesion patterns in soft tissue and bone upon patient-reported flares in rheumatoid arthritis

Dorota Kuettel, Daniel Glinatsi, Mikkel Østergaard, Lene Terslev, Jette Primdahl, Sören Möller, Andreas Pedersen, Randi Petersen, Ulrich Weber, Kim Hørslev-Petersen

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Tumour necrosis factor alpha promotes secretion of 14-3-3η by inducing necroptosis in macrophages

Gulzhan Trimova, Kaoru Yamagata, Shigeru Iwata, Shintaro Hirata, Tong Zhang, Fumi Uemura, Minoru Satoh, Norma Biln, Shingo Nakayamada, Walter P. Maksymowych, Yoshiya Tanaka

Open Access Review

Innate lymphoid cells in inflammatory arthritis

Weiting Fang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhu Chen

Open Access Research article

A set of serum markers detecting systemic inflammation in psoriatic skin, entheseal, and joint disease in the absence of C-reactive protein and its link to clinical disease manifestations

Maria V. Sokolova, David Simon, Kemal Nas, Mario M. Zaiss, Yubin Luo, Yi Zhao, Jürgen Rech, Georg Schett

Open Access Research article

Association between periodontitis and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a cross-sectional study

Jerián González-Febles, Beatriz Rodríguez-Lozano, Carlos Sánchez-Piedra, Jorge Garnier-Rodríguez, Sagrario Bustabad, Martina Hernández-González, Enrique González-Dávila, Mariano Sanz, Federico Díaz-González

Open Access Research article

Adverse events during oral colchicine use: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Sarah Stewart, Kevin Chih Kai Yang, Kate Atkins, Nicola Dalbeth, Philip C. Robinson

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The relationship between synovial inflammation, structural pathology, and pain in post-traumatic osteoarthritis: differential effect of stem cell and hyaluronan treatment

Cindy C. Shu, Sanaa Zaki, Varshini Ravi, Antonella Schiavinato, Margaret M. Smith, Christopher B. Little

Open Access Research article

Early trajectories of skin thickening are associated with severity and mortality in systemic sclerosis

Emmanuel Ledoult, David Launay, Hélène Béhal, Luc Mouthon, Grégory Pugnet, Jean-Christophe Lega, Christian Agard, Yannick Allanore, Patrick Jego, Anne-Laure Fauchais, Jean-Robert Harlé, Sabine Berthier, Achille Aouba, Arsène Mekinian, Elisabeth Diot, Marie-Elise Truchetet, Carine Boulon, Alain Duhamel, Eric Hachulla, Vincent Sobanski, Zahir Amoura, Olivier Aumaitre, Eric Auxenfants, Marie-Hélène Balquet, Cristina Belizna, Boris Bienvenu, Emmanuel Chatelus, Robin Dhote, Yves Frances, Jean-Baptiste Gaultier, Bernard Imbert, Jean-Emmanuel Kahn, Gilles Kaplanski, Pierre Kieffer, Noémie Le Gouellec, Philippe Guilpain, Olivier Lidove, Nadine Magy-Bertrand, François Maurier, Thomas Papo, Jean-Loup Pennaforte, Jacques Pouchot, Vivianne Queyrel, Denis Wahl

Open Access Research article

Detecting gastrointestinal manifestations in patients with systemic sclerosis using anti-gAChR antibodies

Shunya Nakane, Masataka Umeda, Shin-ya Kawashiri, Akihiro Mukaino, Kunihiro Ichinose, Osamu Higuchi, Yasuhiro Maeda, Hideki Nakamura, Hidenori Matsuo, Atsushi Kawakami

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“Non-criteria” antiphospholipid antibodies add value to antiphospholipid syndrome diagnoses in a large Chinese cohort

Tingting Liu, Jieyu Gu, Liyan Wan, Qiongyi Hu, Jialin Teng, Honglei Liu, Xiaobing Cheng, Junna Ye, Yutong Su, Yue Sun, Jinfeng Zhou, Gary L. Norman, Xuefeng Wang, Chengde Yang, Hui Shi

Open Access Research article

Exploration of metformin as novel therapy for osteoarthritis: preventing cartilage degeneration and reducing pain behavior

Hui Li, Xiang Ding, Robert Terkeltaub, Hang Lin, Yuqing Zhang, Bin Zhou, Ke He, Kun Li, Zhichen Liu, Jie Wei, Yuanheng Yang, Hui Xie, Chao Zeng, Guanghua Lei

Open Access Research article

Investigating lupus retention in care to inform interventions for disparities reduction: an observational cohort study

Christie M. Bartels, Ann Rosenthal, Xing Wang, Umber Ahmad, Ian Chang, Nnenna Ezeh, Shivani Garg, Maria Schletzbaum, Amy Kind

Open Access Research article

Prime-boost vaccination strategy enhances immunogenicity compared to single pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in patients receiving conventional DMARDs, to some extent in abatacept but not in rituximab-treated patients

Per Nived, Göran Jönsson, Bo Settergren, Jon Einarsson, Tor Olofsson, Charlotte Sværke Jørgensen, Lillemor Skattum, Meliha C. Kapetanovic

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Association between serum level of urate and subclinical atherosclerosis: results from the SCAPIS Pilot

Panagiota Drivelegka, Helena Forsblad-d’Elia, Oskar Angerås, Göran Bergström, Caroline Schmidt, Lennart T. H. Jacobsson, Mats Dehlin

Open Access Research article

Unstimulated whole saliva flow for diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome: time to revisit the threshold?

Valentin Lacombe, Carole Lacout, Pierre Lozac’h, Alaa Ghali, Aline Gury, Christian Lavigne, Geoffrey Urbanski

Open Access Research article

Seasonal effect on fatigue, pain and dryness in primary Sjögren’s syndrome

Pierre-Marie Duret, Nicolas Meyer, Alain Saraux, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Raphaele Seror, Véronique Le-Guern, Claire Larroche, Aleth Perdriger, Jean Sibilia, Vianney Guardiolle, Xavier Mariette, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg

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High-resolution MRI of flexor tendon pulleys using a 16-channel hand coil: disease detection and differentiation of psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis

Daniel B. Abrar, Christoph Schleich, Sven Nebelung, Miriam Frenken, Karl Ludger Radke, Stefan Vordenbäumen, Ralph Brinks, Matthias Schneider, Benedikt Ostendorf, Dennis McGonagle, Philipp Sewerin

Open Access Research article

Insensitivity versus poor response to tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: a retrospective cohort study

Sae Ochi, Kazuyoshi Saito, Fumitaka Mizoguchi, Shigeaki Kato, Yoshiya Tanaka

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TGFβ-mediated expression of TGFβ-activating integrins in SSc monocytes: disturbed activation of latent TGFβ?

A. van Caam, J. Aarts, T. van Ee, E. Vitters, M. Koenders, F. van de Loo, P. van Lent, F. van den Hoogen, R. Thurlings, M. C. Vonk, P. M. van der Kraan

Open Access Research article

Inhibition of radiographic progression across levels of composite index-defined disease activity in patients with active psoriatic arthritis treated with intravenous golimumab: results from a phase-3, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Philip Mease, M. Elaine Husni, Shelly Kafka, Soumya D. Chakravarty, Diane D. Harrison, Kim Hung Lo, Stephen Xu, Elizabeth C. Hsia, Arthur Kavanaugh

Open Access Research article

Genetic predisposition to smoking is associated with risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a Mendelian randomization study

Yu Qian, Lingzhi Zhang, David J. H. Wu, Zhijun Xie, Chengping Wen, Yingying Mao

Open Access Research article

Pleiotropic effect of the ABCG2 gene in gout: involvement in serum urate levels and progression from hyperuricemia to gout

Rebekah Wrigley, Amanda J. Phipps-Green, Ruth K. Topless, Tanya J. Major, Murray Cadzow, Philip Riches, Anne-Kathrin Tausche, Matthijs Janssen, Leo A. B. Joosten, Tim L. Jansen, Alexander So, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Lisa K. Stamp, Nicola Dalbeth, Tony R. Merriman

Open Access Research article

Identification of molecules associated with response to abatacept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Waka Yokoyama-Kokuryo, Hayato Yamazaki, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Koichi Amano, Jun Kikuchi, Tsuneo Kondo, Seiji Nakamura, Ryoko Sakai, Fumio Hirano, Toshihiro Nanki, Ryuji Koike, Masayoshi Harigai

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Safety and effectiveness of peficitinib (ASP015K) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: interim data (22.7 months mean peficitinib treatment) from a long-term, open-label extension study in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Tsutomu Takeuchi, Yoshiya Tanaka, Sakae Tanaka, Atsushi Kawakami, Yeong-Wook Song, Yi-Hsing Chen, Mitsuhiro Rokuda, Hiroyuki Izutsu, Satoshi Ushijima, Yuichiro Kaneko, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Teruaki Shiomi, Emi Yamada

Open Access Research article

High-throughput quantitative histology in systemic sclerosis skin disease using computer vision

Chase Correia, Seamus Mawe, Shane Lofgren, Roberta G. Marangoni, Jungwha Lee, Rana Saber, Kathleen Aren, Michelle Cheng, Shannon Teaw, Aileen Hoffmann, Isaac Goldberg, Shawn E. Cowper, Purvesh Khatri, Monique Hinchcliff, J. Matthew Mahoney

Open Access Research article

The protective role of the 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3-MST)-hydrogen sulfide (H2S) pathway against experimental osteoarthritis

Sonia Nasi, Driss Ehirchiou, Athanasia Chatzianastasiou, Noriyuki Nagahara, Andreas Papapetropoulos, Jessica Bertrand, Giuseppe Cirino, Alexander So, Nathalie Busso

Open Access Research article

How much of skin improvement over time in systemic sclerosis is due to normal ageing? A prospective study with shear-wave elastography

T. Santiago, M. Santiago, M. Coutinho, M. J. Salvador, J. A. P. Da Silva

Open Access Research article

Lipocalin 2 links inflammation and ankylosis in the clinical overlap of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS)

Aifeng Lin, Robert D. Inman, Catherine J. Streutker, Zhenbo Zhang, Kenneth P. H. Pritzker, Hing Wo Tsui, Florence W. L. Tsui

Open Access Research article

Low frequency of flares during pregnancy and post-partum in stable lupus patients

Julia Davis-Porada, Mimi Y. Kim, Marta M. Guerra, Carl A. Laskin, Michelle Petri, Michael D. Lockshin, Lisa R. Sammaritano, D. Ware Branch, Allen Sawitzke, Joan T. Merrill, Jill P. Buyon, Jane E. Salmon

Open Access Research article

A Canadian evaluation framework for quality improvement in childhood arthritis: key performance indicators of the process of care

Claire E. H. Barber, Marinka Twilt, Tram Pham, Gillian R. Currie, Susanne Benseler, Rae S. M. Yeung, Michelle Batthish, Nicholas Blanchette, Jaime Guzman, Bianca Lang, Claire LeBlanc, Deborah M. Levy, Christine O’Brien, Heinrike Schmeling, Gordon Soon, Lynn Spiegel, Kristi Whitney, Deborah A. Marshall

Open Access Research article

A consensus-based framework for conducting and reporting osteoarthritis phenotype research

W. E. van Spil, S. M. A. Bierma-Zeinstra, L. A. Deveza, N. K. Arden, A.-C. Bay-Jensen, V. Byers Kraus, L. Carlesso, R. Christensen, M. Van Der Esch, P. Kent, J. Knoop, C. Ladel, C. B. Little, R. F. Loeser, E. Losina, K. Mills, A. Mobasheri, A. E. Nelson, T. Neogi, G. M. Peat, A.-C. Rat, M. Steultjens, M. J. Thomas, A. M. Valdes, D. J. Hunter

Open Access Research article

Treatment modalities and drug survival in a systemic sclerosis real-life patient cohort

S. Panopoulos, Κ. Chatzidionysiou, M. G. Tektonidou, V. K. Bournia, A. A. Drosos, Stamatis-Nick C. Liossis, T. Dimitroulas, L. Sakkas, D. Boumpas, P. V. Voulgari, D. Daoussis, K. Thomas, G. Georgiopoulos, G. Vosvotekas, Α. Garyfallos, P. Sidiropoulos, G. Bertsias, D. Vassilopoulos, P. P. Sfikakis

Open Access Review

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis following ACL injury

Li-Juan Wang, Ni Zeng, Zhi-Peng Yan, Jie-Ting Li, Guo-Xin Ni

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Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada sacroiliac joint inflammation and structural scores: change score reliability and recalibration utility in children

Pamela F. Weiss, Walter P. Maksymowych, Rui Xiao, David M. Biko, Michael L. Francavilla, Robert G. Lambert, Jacob L. Jaremko, Merav Heshin-Bekenstein, Timothy G. Brandon, Nancy A. Chauvin

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ACE inhibitors in SSc patients display a risk factor for scleroderma renal crisis—a EUSTAR analysis

Lukas Bütikofer, Pierre A. Varisco, O. Distler, O. Kowal-Bielecka, Y. Allanore, G. Riemekasten, P. M. Villiger, S. Adler, Jérôme Avouac, Ulrich A. Walker, Serena Guiducci, Gabriele Riemekasten, Paolo Airò, Eric Hachulla, Gabriele Valentini, Patricia E. Carreira, Franco Cozzi, Alexandra Balbir Gurman, Yolanda Braun-Moscovici, Nemanja Damjanov, Lidia P. Ananieva, Raffaella Scorza, Sergio Jimenez, Joanna Busquets, Mengtao Li, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Britta Maurer, Alan Tyndall, Giovanni Lapadula, Florenzo Iannone, Radim Becvar, Stanislaw Sierakowsky, Otylia Kowal Bielecka, Maurizio Cutolo, Alberto Sulli, Giovanna Cuomo, Serena Vettori, Simona Rednic, Ileana Nicoara, P. Vlachoyiannopoulos, C. Montecucco, Roberto Caporali, Srdan Novak, László Czirják, Cecilia Varju, Carlo Chizzolini, Eugene J. Kucharz, Anna Kotulska, Magdalena Kopec-Medrek, Malgorzata Widuchowska, Blaz Rozman, Carmel Mallia, Bernard Coleiro, Armando Gabrielli, Dominique Farge, Adrian Hij, Roger Hesselstrand, Agneta Scheja, Frank Wollheim, Duska Martinovic, M. Govoni, Andrea Lo Monaco, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Raffaele Pellerito, Lisa Maria Bambara, Paola Caramaschi, Carol Black, Christopher Denton, Jörg Henes, Vera Ortiz Santamaria, Stefan Heitmann, Dorota Krasowska, Matthias Seidel, Mara Oleszowsky, Harald Burkhardt, Andrea Himsel, Maria J. Salvador, Bojana Stamenkovic, Aleksandra Stankovic, Mohammed Tikly, Maya N. Starovoytova, Merete Engelhart, Gitte Strauss, Henrik Nielsen, Kirsten Damgaard, Gabriella Szücs, Antonio Zea Mendoza, Carlos de la Puente Buijdos, Walter A. Sifuentes Giraldo, Øyvind Midtvedt, Torhild Garen, David Launay, Guido Valesini, Valeria Riccieri, Ruxandra Maria Ionescu, Daniela Opris, Laura Groseanu, Fredrick M. Wigley, Carmen M. Mihai, Roxana Sfrent Cornateanu, Razvan Ionitescu, Ana Maria Gherghe, Marilena Gorga, Rucsandra Dobrota, Mihai Bojinca, Georg Schett, Jörg H. W. Distler, Pierluigi Meroni, Silvana Zeni, Luc Mouthon, Filip De Keyser, Vanessa Smith, Francesco P. Cantatore, Ada Corrado, Susanne Ullman, Line Iversen, Maria R. Pozzi, Kilian Eyerich, Rüdiger Hein, Elisabeth Knott, Jacek Szechinski, Piotr Wiland, Magdalena Szmyrka-Kaczmarek, Renata Sokolik, Ewa Morgiel, Brigitte Krummel-Lorenz, Petra Saar, Martin Aringer, Claudia Günther, Branimir Anic, Marko Baresic, Miroslav Mayer, Sebastião C. Radominski, Carolina de Souza Müller, Valderílio F. Azevedo, Svetlana Agachi, Liliana Groppa, Lealea Chiaburu, Eugen Russu, Thierry Zenone, Simon Stebbings, John Highton, Lisa Stamp, Peter Chapman, Murray Baron, John O’Donnell, Kamal Solanki, Alan Doube, Douglas Veale, Marie O’Rourke, Esthela Loyo, Edoardo Rosato, Simonetta Pisarri, Cristina-Mihaela Tanaseanu, Monica Popescu, Alina Dumitrascu, Isabela Tiglea, Rodica Chirieac, Codrina Ancuta, Daniel E. Furst, Suzanne Kafaja, Paloma García de la Peña Lefebvre, Silvia Rodriguez Rubio, Marta Valero Exposito, Jean Sibilia, Emmanuel Chatelus, Jacques Eric Gottenberg, Hélène Chifflot, Ira Litinsky, Algirdas Venalis, Irena Butrimiene, Paulius Venalis, Rita Rugiene, Diana Karpec, Eduardo Kerzberg, Fabiana Montoya, Vanesa Cosentino, Ivan Castellvi

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Comparative clinical efficacy and safety of the proposed biosimilar ABP 710 with infliximab reference product in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Mark C. Genovese, Juan Sanchez-Burson, MyungShin Oh, Eva Balazs, Jeffrey Neal, Andrea Everding, Tomas Hala, Rafal Wojciechowski, Gary Fanjiang, Stanley Cohen

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Resolvin D1 suppresses pannus formation via decreasing connective tissue growth factor caused by upregulation of miRNA-146a-5p in rheumatoid arthritis

Weiwei Sun, Jinglan Ma, Han Zhao, Chipeng Xiao, Hao Zhong, Hanzhi Ling, Zhen Xie, Qingqing Tian, Huaijun Chen, Tingting Zhang, Mu Chen, Shengwei Jin, Jianguang Wang

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Biological potential alterations of migratory chondrogenic progenitor cells during knee osteoarthritic progression

Yu-Xing Wang, Zhi-Dong Zhao, Qian Wang, Zhong-Li Li, Ya Huang, Sen Zhao, Wei Hu, Jia-Wu Liang, Pei-Lin Li, Hua Wang, Ning Mao, Chu-Tse Wu, Heng Zhu

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Reduction of circulating innate lymphoid cell progenitors results in impaired cytokine production by innate lymphoid cells in patients with lupus nephritis

Seungwon Ryu, Eun Young Lee, Dong Ki Kim, Yon Su Kim, Doo Hyun Chung, Ji Hyung Kim, Hajeong Lee, Hye Young Kim

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Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4-Ig (CTLA-4-Ig) suppresses Staphylococcus aureus-induced CD80, CD86, and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in human B cells

Po-Chun Liu, Chih-Tai Ssu, Yen-Po Tsao, Teh-Ling Liou, Chang-Youh Tsai, Chung-Tei Chou, Ming-Han Chen, Chuen-Miin Leu

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Iguratimod as an alternative induction therapy for refractory lupus nephritis: a preliminary investigational study

Yuening Kang, Qingran Yan, Qiong Fu, Ran Wang, Min Dai, Fang Du, Qing Dai, Ping Ye, Chunmei Wu, Liangjing Lu, Chunde Bao

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Inhibition of effector B cells by ibrutinib in systemic sclerosis

Jakob Einhaus, Ann-Christin Pecher, Elisa Asteriti, Hannes Schmid, Kathy-Ann Secker, Silke Duerr-Stoerzer, Hildegard Keppeler, Reinhild Klein, Corina Schneidawind, Joerg Henes, Dominik Schneidawind

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The relation between physical joint examination and MRI-depicted inflammation of metatarsophalangeal joints in early arthritis

Yousra J. Dakkak, Aleid C. Boer, Debbie M. Boeters, Ellis Niemantsverdriet, Monique Reijnierse, Annette H. M. van der Helm-van Mil

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Pure platelet-rich plasma facilitates the repair of damaged cartilage and synovium in a rabbit hemorrhagic arthritis knee model

Yulun Xue, Xinlin Su, Miao Jiang, Ziqiang Yu, Huilin Yang, Ling Qin, Peter V. Giannoudis, Jiong Jiong Guo

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Expression of interferon-regulated genes in juvenile dermatomyositis versus Mendelian autoinflammatory interferonopathies

Hanna Kim, Fatima Gunter-Rahman, John A. McGrath, Esther Lee, Adriana A. de Jesus, Ira N. Targoff, Yan Huang, Terrance P. O’Hanlon, Wanxia L. Tsai, Massimo Gadina, Frederick W. Miller, Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, Lisa G. Rider

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Sarilumab and adalimumab differential effects on bone remodelling and cardiovascular risk biomarkers, and predictions of treatment outcomes

Cem Gabay, Gerd R. Burmester, Vibeke Strand, Jérôme Msihid, Moshe Zilberstein, Toshio Kimura, Hubert van Hoogstraten, Susan H. Boklage, Jonathan Sadeh, Neil M. H. Graham, Anita Boyapati

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Opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: analysis by the Pharmachild Safety Adjudication Committee

Gabriella Giancane, Joost F. Swart, Elio Castagnola, Andreas H. Groll, Gerd Horneff, Hans-Iko Huppertz, Daniel J. Lovell, Tom Wolfs, Troels Herlin, Pavla Dolezalova, Helga Sanner, Gordana Susic, Flavio Sztajnbok, Despoina Maritsi, Tamas Constantin, Veronika Vargova, Sujata Sawhney, Marite Rygg, Sheila K. Oliveira, Marco Cattalini, Francesca Bovis, Francesca Bagnasco, Angela Pistorio, Alberto Martini, Nico Wulffraat, Nicolino Ruperto, Ruben Cuttica, Stella Maris Garay, Jurgen Brunner, Wolfgang Emminger, Simone Appenzeller, Claudio Len, Claudia Saad Magalhaes, Albena Telcharova-Mihaylovska, Miroslav Harjacek, Marija Jelusic, Anne Estmann, Susan Nielsen, Cristina Herrera Mora, Elisabeth Gervais, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Pierre Quartier, Ivan Foeldvari, Gerd Horneff, Thomas Lutz, Kirsten Minden, Nikolay Tzaribachev, Maria Trachana, Elena Tsitsami, Olga Vougiouka, Ilonka Orban, Liora Harel, Philip Hashkes, Yosef Uziel, Rolando Cimaz, Adele Civino, Rita Consolini, Gianfranco D’Angelo, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Giovanni Filocamo, Elena Fueri, Romina Gallizzi, Maria Cristina Maggio, Maria Greca Magnolia, Angela Miniaci, Davide Montin, Alma Nunzia Olivieri, Serena Pastore, Donato Rigante, Francesco Zulian, Ingrida Rumba-Rozenfelde, Valda Stanevicha, Violeta Panaviene, Ana Luisa Rodriguez Lozano, Nadina Rubio-Perez, Gabriel Vega Cornejo, Esther Hoppenreijs, Sylvia Kamphuis, Berit Flato, Ellen Berit Nordal, Reem Abdwani, Tatiana Miraval, Maria Eliana Paz Gastanaga, Elzbieta Smolewska, Constantin Ailioaie, Alexis-Virgil Cochino, Matilda Laday, Calin Lazar, Ekaterina Alexeeva, Vyacheslav Chasnyk, Vladimir Keltsev, Wafaa Mohammed Saad Suwairi, Gordana Vijatov-Djuric, Jelena Vojinovic, Thaschawee Arkachaisri, Elena Koskova, Tadej Avcin, Mahmood Ally, Christa Janse Van Rensburg, Ingrid Louw, Jordi Anton Lopez, Alina Lucica Boteanu, Inmaculada Calvo Penades, Jaime De Inocencio, Pablo Mesa-del-Castillo, Estefania Moreno, Agustin Remesal, Michael Hofer, Faysal Gok, Seza Ozen, Athimalaipet Ramanan, Chiara Pallotti, Luca Villa

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Associated factors of poor treatment outcomes in patients with giant cell arteritis: clinical implication of large vessel lesions

Takahiko Sugihara, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Haruhito A. Uchida, Hajime Yoshifuji, Yoshiko Watanabe, Eisuke Amiya, Yasuhiro Maejima, Masanori Konishi, Yohko Murakawa, Noriyoshi Ogawa, Shunsuke Furuta, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Yoshinori Komagata, Taio Naniwa, Takahiro Okazaki, Yoshiya Tanaka, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Yoshikazu Nakaoka, Yoshihiro Arimura, Masayoshi Harigai, Mitsuaki Isobe, Shigeto Kobayashi, Tetsuya Horita, Hiroaki Dobashi, Eri Muso, Atsushi Komatsuda, Satoshi Ito, Kazuo Tanemoto, Hiroshi Akazawa, Issei Komuro, Koichi Amano, Atsushi Kawakami, Takashi Wada, Taichi Hayashi, Shinichi Takeda

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Serum interleukin-16 significantly correlates with the Vasculitis Damage Index in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis

Taejun Yoon, Jung Yoon Pyo, Sung Soo Ahn, Jason Jungsik Song, Yong-Beom Park, Sang-Won Lee

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MHC associations of ankylosing spondylitis in East Asians are complex and involve non-HLA-B27 HLA contributions

Geng Wang, Tae-Hwan Kim, Zhixiu Li, Adrian Cortes, Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Paul Leo, Matthew A. Brown, Huji Xu

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Alternatively activated macrophages are associated with the α2AP production that occurs with the development of dermal fibrosis

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