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Extended reports

• Mutual antagonism of rheumatoid arthritis and hay fever; a role for type 1/type 2 T cell balance (1 May, 1998)

  Catharina M Verhoef, Joel A G van Roon, Marieke E Vianen, Carla A F M Bruijnzeel-Koomen, Floris P J G Lafeber, Johannes W J Bijlsma
• Serum androgen-anabolic hormones and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 1998)

  R Heikkilä, K Aho, M Heliövaara, P Knekt, A Reunanen, A Aromaa, A Leino, T Palosuo
• Influence of HLA-class II incompatibility between mother and fetus on the development and course of rheumatoid arthritis of the mother (1 May, 1998)

  I E van der Horst-Bruinsma, R R P de Vries, P D M de Buck, P W van Schendel, F C Breedveld, G M Th Schreuder, J M W Hazes
• Fatigue in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (1 May, 1998)

  P J Barendregt, M R M Visser, E M A Smets, J H M Tulen, A H van den Meiracker, F Boomsma, H M Markusse
• Heart involvement in systemic sclerosis: an ultrasonic tissue characterisation study (1 May, 1998)

  Clodoveo Ferri, Vitantonio Di Bello, Antonella Martini, Davide Giorgi, Franca A A Storino, Massimiliano Bianchi, Alessio Bertini, Marco Paterni, Costantino Giusti, Giampiero Pasero
• Expression of α and β subunits of the integrin superfamily in articular cartilage from macroscopically normal and osteoarthritic human femoral heads (1 May, 1998)

  Keld Ostergaard, Donald M Salter, Jorgen Petersen, Klaus Bendtzen, Jesper Hvolris, Claus B Andersen
• Iron, lactoferrin and iron regulatory protein activity in the synovium; relative importance of iron loading and the inflammatory response (1 May, 1998)

  C Guillén, I B McInnes, H Kruger, J H Brock