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Extended reports

• Early effects of tumour necrosis factor α blockade on skin and synovial tissue in patients with active psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (11 June, 2004)

  A Y Goedkoop, M C Kraan, M B M Teunissen, D I Picavet, M A de Rie, J D Bos, P P Tak
• Macrophage specificity of three anti-CD68 monoclonal antibodies (KP1, EBM11, and PGM1) widely used for immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry (11 June, 2004)

  E Kunisch, R Fuhrmann, A Roth, R Winter, W Lungershausen, R W Kinne
• Longitudinal development of skin involvement and reliability of high frequency ultrasound in systemic sclerosis (11 June, 2004)

  A Åkesson, R Hesselstrand, A Scheja, M Wildt
• Lack of radiological and clinical benefit over two years of low dose prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis: results of a randomised controlled trial (11 June, 2004)

  H A Capell, R Madhok, J A Hunter, D Porter, E Morrison, J Larkin, E A Thomson, R Hampson, F W Poon
• High intensity exercise or conventional exercise for patients with rheumatoid arthritis? Outcome expectations of patients, rheumatologists, and physiotherapists (11 June, 2004)

  M Munneke, Z de Jong, A H Zwinderman, H K Ronday, C H M van den Ende, T P M Vliet Vlieland, J M W Hazes
• Possible role of leptin in hypoandrogenicity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis (11 June, 2004)

  P Härle, G Pongratz, C Weidler, R Büttner, J Schölmerich, R H Straub
• Determinants of direct costs in Dutch rheumatoid arthritis patients (11 June, 2004)

  S M M Verstappen, H Verkleij, J W J Bijlsma, E Buskens, A A Kruize, A H M Heurkens, M J van der Veen, J W G Jacobs
• Trends in hip and knee joint replacement: socioeconomic inequalities and projections of need (11 June, 2004)

  T Dixon, M Shaw, S Ebrahim, P Dieppe
• Serum amyloid P component levels are not decreased in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and do not rise during an acute phase reaction (11 June, 2004)

  M Bijl, H Bootsma, Y van der Geld, P C Limburg, C G M Kallenberg, M H van Rijswijk
• Burden and cost of illness in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (11 June, 2004)

  K Minden, M Niewerth, J Listing, T Biedermann, M Schöntube, A Zink
• Vitamin C and the risk of developing inflammatory polyarthritis: prospective nested case-control study (11 June, 2004)

  D J Pattison, A J Silman, N J Goodson, M Lunt, D Bunn, R Luben, A Welch, S Bingham, K-T Khaw, N Day, D P M Symmons
• Relationship between inflammation and joint destruction in early rheumatoid arthritis: a mathematical description (11 June, 2004)

  M C Wick, S Lindblad, L Klareskog, R F van Vollenhoven
• Pharmaceutical treatment of symptomatic vertebral fractures in primary care (11 June, 2004)

  D J Torgerson, D Sykes, S Puffer, P Brown, C Cooper
• Effects of ibuprofen on molecular markers of cartilage and synovium turnover in patients with knee osteoarthritis (11 June, 2004)

  E Gineyts, J A Mo, A Ko, D B Henriksen, S P Curtis, B J Gertz, P Garnero, P D Delmas
• Autoantibodies against granulocyte−macrophage colony stimulating factor and interleukin-3 are rare in patients with Felty’s syndrome (11 June, 2004)

  B Hellmich, A Ciaglo, H Schatz, G Coakley
• Simvastatin reduces MMP-3 level in interleukin 1β stimulated human chondrocyte culture (11 June, 2004)

  P E Lazzerini, P L Capecchi, F Nerucci, A Fioravanti, F Chellini, M Piccini, S Bisogno, R Marcolongo, F Laghi Pasini
• Correlation between 18-fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation in large vessels and serological markers of inflammation in polymyalgia rheumatica: a quantitative PET study (11 June, 2004)

  F Moosig, N Czech, C Mehl, E Henze, R A Zeuner, M Kneba, J O Schröder