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Extended reports

• High-resolution ultrasonography of the first metatarsal phalangeal joint in gout: a controlled study (21 December, 2006) Free

  Stephen A Wright, Emilio Filippucci, Claire McVeigh, Arthur Grey, Maura McCarron, Walter Grassi, Gary D Wright, Allister J Taggart
• Haematopoietic and endothelial progenitor cells are deficient in quiescent systemic lupus erythematosus (28 February, 2007)

  Peter E Westerweel, Remco K M A C Luijten, Imo E Hoefer, Hein A Koomans, Ronald H W M Derksen, Marianne C Verhaar
• β-Endorphin, Met-enkephalin and corresponding opioid receptors within synovium of patients with joint trauma, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (26 February, 2007)

  Shaaban A Mousa, Rainer H Straub, Michael Schäfer, Christoph Stein
• All-cause and cause-specific mortality in rheumatoid arthritis are not greater than expected when treated with tumour necrosis factor antagonists (26 February, 2007) Free

  Loreto Carmona, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Eva Perez-Pampin, Dolores Ruiz-Montesinos, Alba Erra, Tatiana Cobo, Juan J Gómez-Reino
• Intrarenal cytokine gene expression in lupus nephritis (26 February, 2007)

  Rebecca Wing-Yan Chan, Fernand Mac-Moune Lai, Edmund Kwok-Ming Li, Lai-Shan Tam, Kai-Ming Chow, Ka-Bik Lai, Philip Kam-Tao Li, Cheuk-Chun Szeto
• Open-label, pilot protocol of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who switch to infliximab after an incomplete response to etanercept: the opposite study (5 April, 2007) Free

  Daniel E Furst, Norman Gaylis, Vance Bray, Ewa Olech, David Yocum, Jeffrey Ritter, Michael Weisman, Daniel J Wallace, John Crues, Dinesh Khanna, Gregory Eckel, Newman Yeilding, Peter Callegari, Sudha Visvanathan, Jeannie Rojas, Ronald Hegedus, Laura George, Khalid Mamun, Keith Gilmer, Orrin Troum
• IL1 and TNF gene polymorphisms in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with TNF inhibitors (26 February, 2007)

  Rolando Cimaz, Marie-Angélique Cazalis, Charlotte Reynaud, Valeria Gerloni, Francesco Zulian, Martina Biggioggero, Giorgia Martini, Irene Pontikaki, Flavio Fantini, Bruno Mougin, Pierre Miossec
• Genetic variations of Toll-like receptor 9 predispose to systemic lupus erythematosus in Japanese population (7 March, 2007)

  Kayoko Tao, Mutsuko Fujii, Shin-ichi Tsukumo, Yoichi Maekawa, Kenji Kishihara, Yasutaka Kimoto, Takahiko Horiuchi, Hajime Hisaeda, Shizuo Akira, Shoji Kagami, Koji Yasutomo
• Progression of radiographic damage in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: defining the central role of syndesmophytes (28 February, 2007)

  X Baraliakos, J Listing, M Rudwaleit, H Haibel, J Brandt, J Sieper, J Braun
• Do metabolic factors add to the effect of overweight on hand osteoarthritis? The Rotterdam Study (21 February, 2007)

  S Dahaghin, S M A Bierma-Zeinstra, B W Koes, J M W Hazes, H A P Pols
• Clinical response to adalimumab: relationship to anti-adalimumab antibodies and serum adalimumab concentrations in rheumatoid arthritis (14 February, 2007)

  Geertje M Bartelds, Carla A Wijbrandts, Michael T Nurmohamed, Steven Stapel, Willem F Lems, Lucien Aarden, Ben A C Dijkmans, Paul Peter Tak, Gerrit Jan Wolbink
• Assessment of the 2006 revised antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria (2 March, 2007)

  Mala Kaul, Doruk Erkan, Lisa Sammaritano, Michael D Lockshin
• Assessment of non-vertebral fracture risk in postmenopausal women (21 February, 2007)

  Christian Roux, Karine Briot, Stéphane Horlait, Alex Varbanov, Nelson B Watts, Steven Boonen
• Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue Scale is valid in patients with psoriatic arthritis (26 February, 2007)

  Vinod Chandran, Sita Bhella, Catherine Schentag, Dafna D Gladman
• Changes in causes of death in systemic sclerosis, 1972–2002 (28 February, 2007)

  Virginia D Steen, Thomas A Medsger
• Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of etoricoxib compared with naproxen in two, 138-week randomised studies of patients with osteoarthritis (1 December, 2006)

  J Y Reginster, K Malmstrom, A Mehta, G Bergman, A T Ko, S P Curtis, A S Reicin
• Cia25 on rat chromosome 12 regulates severity of autoimmune arthritis induced with pristane and with collagen

  (28 February, 2007)

  Max Brenner, Teresina Laragione, Adriana Mello, Pércio S Gulko
• Changes in lipid profile during infliximab and corticosteroid treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (21 February, 2007)

  M J L Peters, M Vis, V P van Halm, G J Wolbink, A E Voskuyl, W F Lems, B A C Dijkmans, J W R Twisk, M H M T de Koning, R J van de Stadt, M T Nurmohamed