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, ...

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 ...

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

Hepatic manifestations in autoimmune disease include chronic active hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia. These diseases are rare ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Rheumatology, St Maartenshospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Medical ...

Rheumatology, Med Klinik I, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany ...

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 ...

Objective To identify methods of tophus measurement for gout studies, summarise the properties of these methods and compile a detailed pictorial reference guide to demonstrate the methods. Methods A ...

3 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Sweden 4 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, ...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan H Yamada, Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1 ...

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 ...

Background Vitamin D is important for bone, cartilage and muscle function but there are few studies on its association with joint pain. Objective To investigate whether serum vitamin D predicts change ...