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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part I): classification of paper patients by ...

Rheumatology, Med Klinik I, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany ...
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Type II collagen degradation and its regulation in articular cartilage in osteoarthritis

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Montreal, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, ...
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Defining conditions where long-term glucocorticoid treatment has an acceptably low level of harm to facilitate implementation of existing recommendations: viewpoints from an ...

3 Amsterdam Rheumatology& Immunology Center, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 Medical Humanities, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
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Hepatic manifestations of autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Hepatic manifestations in autoimmune disease include chronic active hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia. These diseases are rare ...
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Clinical efficacy and side effects of antimalarials in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review

Background: Antimalarial drugs (AMs), chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), are frequently withdrawn in patients with lupus with either severe or remitting disease. However, additional ...
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Infections and the risk of incident giant cell arteritis: a population-based, case-control study

Objectives Alterations in the immune system and infections are suspected to increase susceptibility to giant cell arteritis (GCA). Recently herpes zoster has been directly implicated in the ...
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Incidence trend of five common musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2017 at the global, regional and national level: results from the global burden of disease study 2017

Correspondence to Professor Lingyun Sun, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing 210008, China; ...
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FOXP3 expression in blood, synovial fluid and synovial tissue during inflammatory arthritis and intra-articular corticosteroid treatment

Objective: To analyse the distribution of FOXP3+CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Treg) in peripheral blood, synovial fluid and tissue of patients with rheumatic disease during relapse and after local ...
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Thickness of human articular cartilage in joints of the lower limb

OBJECTIVES (a) To determine the topographical variations in cartilage thickness over the entire surfaces of cadaveric lower limb joints, and (b) to examine the correlations between: cartilage ...
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AB0067 Allosteric receptor modulation of a free fatty acid receptor turns natural agonists into potent activators of the superoxide generating neutrophil nadph-oxidase

Background Short chain fatty acids are generated in the colon by bacterial fermentation of dietary fibres and serve as natural agonists for the free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFA2R/GPR43) which belongs ...
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PUF60: a prominent new target of the autoimmune response in dermatomyositis and Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives Autoantibodies are used clinically to phenotype and subset patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We detected a novel 60 kDa autoantibody specificity by immunoblotting using a ...
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Sclerosing skin disorders in association with multiple sclerosis. Coincidence, underlying autoimmune pathology or interferon induced?

Ulrich A Walker, Department of Rheumatology, Felix Platter Spital, Burgfelderstrasse 101, Basel 4012, Switzerland; ulrich.walker{at}fps-basel.ch Objectives: To describe and analyse the manifestation ...