Table of contents

Extended reports

• Synovial tissue response to rituximab: mechanism of action and identification of biomarkers of response (26 October, 2007)

  R M Thurlings, K Vos, C A Wijbrandts, A H Zwinderman, D M Gerlag, P P Tak
• Magnetic resonance imaging can accurately assess the long-term progression of knee structural changes in experimental dog osteoarthritis (25 October, 2007)

  C Boileau, J Martel-Pelletier, F Abram, J-P Raynauld, É Troncy, M-A D’Anjou, M Moreau, J-P Pelletier
• The MHC2TA –168A/G polymorphism and risk for rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis of 6861 patients and 9270 controls reveals no evidence for association (17 September, 2007)

  P G Bronson, L A Criswell, L F Barcellos
• Vaccination against influenza in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the effect of rituximab on the humoral response (2 November, 2007)

  S Oren, M Mandelboim, Y Braun-Moscovici, D Paran, J Ablin, I Litinsky, D Comaneshter, D Levartovsky, E Mendelson, R Azar, I Wigler, A Balbir-Gurman, D Caspi, O Elkayam
• Efficacy and safety of a novel synergistic drug candidate, CRx-102, in hand osteoarthritis (25 October, 2007)

  T K Kvien, E Fjeld, B Slatkowsky-Christensen, M Nichols, Y Zhang, A Prøven, K Mikkelsen, Ø Palm, A A Borisy, J Lessem
• Exocrine function in primary Sjögren syndrome: natural course and prognostic factors (25 October, 2007)

  K Haldorsen, K Moen, H Jacobsen, R Jonsson, J G Brun
• Prevalence and characteristics of uveitis in the spondyloarthropathies: a systematic literature review (25 October, 2007)

  N Zeboulon, M Dougados, L Gossec
• Gout in the UK and Germany: prevalence, comorbidities and management in general practice 2000–2005 (2 November, 2007)

  L Annemans, E Spaepen, M Gaskin, M Bonnemaire, V Malier, T Gilbert, G Nuki
• Identification of disease activity and health status cut-off points for the symptom state acceptable to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (26 October, 2007)

  T Heiberg, T K Kvien, P Mowinckel, D Aletaha, J S Smolen, K B Hagen
• The Wegener’s granulomatosis quantitative trait locus on chromosome 6p21.3 as characterised by tagSNP genotyping (29 October, 2007)

  M Heckmann, J U Holle, L Arning, S Knaup, B Hellmich, M Nothnagel, P Jagiello, W L Gross, J T Epplen, S Wieczorek
• Association between radiographic severity of rheumatoid arthritis and shared epitope alleles: differing mechanisms of susceptibility and protection (27 September, 2007)

  D Mewar, I Marinou, A L Coote, D J Moore, M Akil, D Smillie, M C Dickson, M H Binks, D S Montgomery, A G Wilson
• Pregnancy induces numerical and functional changes of CD4+CD25^high regulatory T cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

  (30 October, 2007)

  F Förger, N Marcoli, S Gadola, B Möller, P M Villiger, M Østensen
• Autologous non-myeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for refractory systemic vasculitis (18 October, 2007)

  L Statkute, Y Oyama, W G Barr, R Sufit, S Ho, L Verda, Y Loh, K Yaung, K Quigley, R K Burt
• Detection of rheumatoid arthritis bone erosions by two different dedicated extremity MRI units and conventional radiography (5 November, 2007)

  A Duer-Jensen, A Vestergaard, U M Døhn, B Ejbjerg, M L Hetland, E Albrecht-Beste, M Østergaard
• Outcomes from studies of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody associated vasculitis: a systematic review by the European League Against Rheumatism systemic vasculitis task force (2 October, 2007) Free

  C Mukhtyar, O Flossmann, B Hellmich, P Bacon, M Cid, J W Cohen-Tervaert, W L Gross, L Guillevin, D Jayne, A Mahr, P A Merkel, H Raspe, D Scott, J Witter, H Yazici, R A Luqmani, on behalf of the European Vasculitis Study Group (EUVAS)
• B cell depletion therapy in systemic lupus erythaematosus: relationships among serum B lymphocyte stimulator levels, autoantibody profile and clinical response (25 October, 2007)

  G Cambridge, D A Isenberg, J C W Edwards, M J Leandro, T-S Migone, M Teodorescu, W Stohl
• Recommendations for the content and conduct of European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) musculoskeletal ultrasound courses (5 October, 2007)

  E Naredo, J W J Bijlsma, P G Conaghan, C Acebes, P Balint, H Berner-Hammer, G A W Bruyn, P Collado, M A D’Agostino, J J de Agustin, E de Miguel, E Filippucci, W Grassi, A Iagnocco, D Kane, J M Koski, B Manger, L Mayordomo, I Möller, C Moragues, E Rejón, M Szkudlarek, L Terslev, J Uson, R J Wakefield, W A Schmidt