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    Arthritis & Rheumatism: Volume 46, Issue 4

    851-1132, 21A-22A
    April 2002
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Editorials

Urgent care and tight control of rheumatoid arthritis as in diabetes and hypertension: Better treatments but a shortage of rheumatologists

Theodore Pincus,  Allan Gibofsky,  Michael E. Weinblatt, 
  • Pages: 851-854
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Plasticity of hematopoietic stem cells: Enough to induce tolerance and repair tissue?

Richard K. Burt,  Ann E. Traynor,  Yu Oyama,  Walter G. Barr, 
  • Pages: 855-858
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

DNA microarrays: Boundless technology or bound by technology? Guidelines for studies using microarray technology

Gary S. Firestein,  David S. Pisetsky, 
  • Pages: 859-861
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Review Articles

Accelerated atherosclerosis: An extraarticular feature of rheumatoid arthritis?

S. Van Doornum,  G. McColl,  I. P. Wicks, 
  • Pages: 862-873
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Gene expression profiles: Creating new perspectives in arthritis research

Ethan P. Grant,  Michael D. Pickard,  Michael J. Briskin,  Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, 
  • Pages: 874-884
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Proteomics technologies for the study of autoimmune disease

William H. Robinson,  Lawrence Steinman,  Paul J. Utz, 
  • Pages: 885-893
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Original Articles

Delay to institution of therapy and induction of remission using single-drug or combination–disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in early rheumatoid arthritis

Timo Möttönen,  Pekka Hannonen,  Markku Korpela,  Martti Nissilä,  Hannu Kautiainen,  Jorma Ilonen,  Leena Laasonen,  Oili Kaipiainen-Seppänen,  Per Franzen,  Tapani Helve,  Juhani Koski,  Marianne Gripenberg-Gahmberg,  Riitta Myllykangas-Luosujärvi,  Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, 
  • Pages: 894-898
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Early and aggressive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis patients affects the association of HLA class II antigens with progression of joint damage

L. R. Lard,  M. Boers,  A. Verhoeven,  K. Vos,  H. Visser,  J. M. W. Hazes,  A. H. Zwinderman,  G. M. T. Schreuder,  F. C. Breedveld,  R. R. P. De Vries,  S. Van Der Linden,  E. Zanelli,  T. W. J. Huizinga, 
  • Pages: 899-905
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Rheumatoid factor is the major predictor of increasing severity of radiographic erosions in rheumatoid arthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register Study, a large inception cohort

M. Bukhari,  M. Lunt,  B. J. Harrison,  D. G. I. Scott,  D. P. M. Symmons,  A. J. Silman, 
  • Pages: 906-912
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Determination of the minimal clinically important difference in rheumatoid arthritis joint damage of the Sharp/van der Heijde and Larsen/Scott scoring methods by clinical experts and comparison with the smallest detectable difference

Karin Bruynesteyn,  Désirée van der Heijde,  Maarten Boers,  Ariane Saudan,  Paul Peloso,  Harold Paulus,  Harry Houben,  Bridget Griffiths,  John Edmonds,  Barry Bresnihan,  Annelies Boonen,  Sjef van der Linden, 
  • Pages: 913-920
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Reshaping the shared epitope hypothesis: HLA-associated risk for rheumatoid arthritis is encoded by amino acid substitutions at positions 67–74 of the HLA–DRB1 molecule

Niek de Vries,  Henk Tijssen,  Piet L. C. M. van Riel,  Leo B. A. van de Putte, 
  • Pages: 921-928
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Interaction between heat-shock protein 73 and HLA–DRB1 alleles associated or not with rheumatoid arthritis

Isabelle Auger,  Lydia Lepecuchel,  Jean Roudier, 
  • Pages: 929-933
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Local production of complement proteins in rheumatoid arthritis synovium

Elena Neumann,  Scott R. Barnum,  Ingo H. Tarner,  Josh Echols,  Martin Fleck,  Martin Judex,  Frank Kullmann,  John D. Mountz,  Jürgen Schölmerich,  Steffen Gay,  Ulf Müller-Ladner, 
  • Pages: 934-945
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Genome scan for quantity of hand osteoarthritis: The Framingham study

S. Demissie,  L. A. Cupples,  R. Myers,  P. Aliabadi,  D. Levy,  D. T. Felson, 
  • Pages: 946-952
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Acidic cysteine endoproteinase cathepsin K in the degeneration of the superficial articular hyaline cartilage in osteoarthritis

Yrjö T. Konttinen,  Jami Mandelin,  Tian-Fang Li,  Jari Salo,  Jan Lassus,  Mikko Liljeström,  Mika Hukkanen,  Michiaki Takagi,  Ismo Virtanen,  Seppo Santavirta, 
  • Pages: 953-960
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

The modulation of matrix metalloproteinase and ADAM gene expression in human chondrocytes by interleukin-1 and oncostatin M: A time-course study using real-time quantitative reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction

P. J. T. Koshy,  C. J. Lundy,  A. D. Rowan,  S. Porter,  D. R. Edwards,  A. Hogan,  I. M. Clark,  T. E. Cawston, 
  • Pages: 961-967
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Influence of hypoxia and reoxygenation on cytokine-induced production of proinflammatory mediators in articular cartilage

Julie Cernanec,  Farshid Guilak,  J. Brice Weinberg,  David S. Pisetsky,  Beverley Fermor, 
  • Pages: 968-975
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Specific enzymatic treatment of bovine and human articular cartilage: Implications for integrative cartilage repair

P. K. Bos,  J. DeGroot,  M. Budde,  J. A. N. Verhaar,  G. J. V. M. van Osch, 
  • Pages: 976-985
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

The influence of patient characteristics, disease variables, and HLA alleles on the development of radiographically evident sacroiliitis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Berit Flatø,  Anna Smerdel,  Virginia Johnston,  Gunhild Lien,  Knut Dale,  Odd Vinje,  Thore Egeland,  Dag Sørskaar,  Øystein Førre, 
  • Pages: 986-994
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Renal flares are common in patients with severe proliferative lupus nephritis treated with pulse immunosuppressive therapy: Long-term followup of a cohort of 145 patients participating in randomized controlled studies

G. G. Illei,  K. Takada,  D. Parkin,  H. A. Austin,  M. Crane,  C. H. Yarboro,  E. M. Vaughan,  T. Kuroiwa,  C. L. Danning,  J. Pando,  A. D. Steinberg,  M. F. Gourley,  J. H. Klippel,  J. E. Balow,  D. T. Boumpas, 
  • Pages: 995-1002
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Outcome and prognostic indicators of diffuse proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis treated with sequential oral cyclophosphamide and azathioprine

Chi Chiu Mok,  Carmen Tze Kwan Ho,  Kwok Wah Chan,  Chak Sing Lau,  Raymond Woon Sing Wong, 
  • Pages: 1003-1013
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Long-term followup of patients treated with total lymphoid irradiation for lupus nephritis

Mark C. Genovese,  Zuzana Uhrin,  Daniel A. Bloch,  John Oehlert,  Richard K. Sibley,  Bryan Myers,  Samuel Strober, 
  • Pages: 1014-1018
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Antiphospholipid syndrome: Clinical and immunologic manifestations and patterns of disease expression in a cohort of 1,000 patients

Ricard Cervera,  Jean-Charles Piette,  Josep Font,  Munther A. Khamashta,  Yehuda Shoenfeld,  María Teresa Camps,  Soren Jacobsen,  Gabriella Lakos,  Angela Tincani,  Irene Kontopoulou-Griva,  Mauro Galeazzi,  Pier Luigi Meroni,  Ronald H. W. M. Derksen,  Philip G. de Groot,  Erika Gromnica-Ihle,  Marta Baleva,  Marta Mosca,  Stefano Bombardieri,  Frédéric Houssiau,  Jean-Christophe Gris,  Isabelle Quéré,  Eric Hachulla,  Carlos Vasconcelos,  Beate Roch,  Antonio Fernández-Nebro,  Marie-Claire Boffa,  Graham R. V. Hughes,  Miguel Ingelmo, 
  • Pages: 1019-1027
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Defective Fc-dependent processing of immune complexes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Kevin A. Davies,  Michael G. Robson,  A. Michael Peters,  Peter Norsworthy,  Julian T. Nash,  Mark J. Walport, 
  • Pages: 1028-1038
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Presence of microchimerism in labial salivary glands in systemic sclerosis but not in Sjögren's syndrome

Sélim Aractingi,  Jean Sibilia,  Véronique Meignin,  David Launay,  Eric Hachulla,  Caroline Le Danff,  Anne Janin,  Xavier Mariette, 
  • Pages: 1039-1043
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Interleukin-1α expression in capillaries and major histocompatibility complex class I expression in type II muscle fibers from polymyositis and dermatomyositis patients: Important pathogenic features independent of inflammatory cell clusters in muscle tissue

Pernilla Englund,  Inger Nennesmo,  Lars Klareskog,  Ingrid E. Lundberg, 
  • Pages: 1044-1055
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Temporal arteritis and Chlamydia pneumoniae: Failure to detect the organism by polymerase chain reaction in ninety cases and ninety controls

Michael J. Regan,  Billie Jo Wood,  Yu-Hsiang Hsieh,  Mellisa L. Theodore,  Thomas C. Quinn,  David B. Hellmann,  W. Richard Green,  Charlotte A. Gaydos,  John H. Stone, 
  • Pages: 1056-1060
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

A novel mutation in the third extracellular domain of the tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in a Finnish family with autosomal-dominant recurrent fever

Hanna Nevala,  Leena Karenko,  Susanna Stjernberg,  Maria Raatikainen,  Hanna Suomalainen,  Anssi Lagerstedt,  Jenita Rauta,  Michael F. McDermott,  Pärt Peterson,  Tom Pettersson,  Annamari Ranki, 
  • Pages: 1061-1066
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Arthritis in MRL/lpr mice is under the control of multiple gene loci with an allelic combination derived from the original inbred strains

Junji Kamogawa,  Miho Terada,  Shinichi Mizuki,  Miyuki Nishihara,  Haruyasu Yamamoto,  Shiro Mori,  Yoriko Abe,  Koji Morimoto,  Syuichi Nakatsuru,  Yusuke Nakamura,  Masato Nose, 
  • Pages: 1067-1074
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Evaluation of quantitative trait loci regulating severity of mycobacterial adjuvant-induced arthritis in monocongenic and polycongenic rats: Identification of a new regulatory locus on rat chromosome 10 and evidence of overlap with rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility loci

Bina Joe,  Grant W. Cannon,  Marie M. Griffiths,  David E. Dobbins,  Pércio S. Gulko,  Ronald L. Wilder,  Elaine F. Remmers, 
  • Pages: 1075-1085
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Immunogenicity of recombinant type IX collagen in murine collagen-induced arthritis

L. K. Myers,  T. Pihlajamaa,  D. D. Brand,  M. A. Cremer,  M. Bodo,  L. Ala-Kokko,  A. H. Kang, 
  • Pages: 1086-1093
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Expression of osteopontin at sites of bone erosion in a murine experimental arthritis model of collagen-induced arthritis: Possible involvement of osteopontin in bone destruction in arthritis

Shiro Ohshima,  Hideyuki Kobayashi,  Norihiko Yamaguchi,  Katsuhiro Nishioka,  Mitsuko Umeshita-Sasai,  Toru Mima,  Shintaro Nomura,  Shigeyuki Kon,  Manabu Inobe,  Toshimitsu Uede,  Yukihiko Saeki, 
  • Pages: 1094-1101
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Gene transfer of a fibronectin peptide inhibits leukocyte recruitment and suppresses inflammation in mouse collagen-induced arthritis

Tomoyuki Imagawa,  Shohei Watanabe,  Shigeki Katakura,  Gregory P. Boivin,  Raphael Hirsch, 
  • Pages: 1102-1108
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Suppression of collagen-induced arthritis by single administration of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles entrapping type II collagen: A novel treatment strategy for induction of oral tolerance

Wan-Uk Kim,  Woo-Kyoung Lee,  Jae-Woong Ryoo,  Seung-Hoon Kim,  Jin Kim,  Jeehee Youn,  So-Youn Min,  Eui-Young Bae,  Sue-Yun Hwang,  Sung-Hwan Park,  Chul-Soo Cho,  Jong-Sang Park,  Ho-Youn Kim, 
  • Pages: 1109-1120
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Concise Communications

Decrease in synovial cellularity and cytokine expression after autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Danielle M. C. Brinkman MD,  Rebecca Ten Cate MD, PhD,  Jaak M. Vossen MD, PhD,  Tom J. M. Smeets BSc,  Maarten C. Kraan MD, PhD,  Paul P. Tak MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 1121-1124
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Evidence of transplacental passage of hydroxychloroquine in humans

Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau MD,  Zahir Amoura MD,  Guy Aymard PhD,  Du Le Thi Hong MD,  Bertrand Wechsler MD,  Danièle Vauthier MD,  Marie Elisabeth Dermer MD,  Yves Darbois MD,  Jean-Charles Piette MD, 
  • Pages: 1123-1124
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Letters

The R-H polymorphism of FCγ receptor IIa as a risk factor for systemic lupus erythematosus is independent of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the interleukin-10 gene promoter

Hilde M. Dijstelbloem PhD,  Bouke G. Hepkema PhD,  Cees G. M. Kallenberg MD, PhD,  Michiel W. Van Der Linden MD, PhD,  Vivian Keijsers,  Tom W. J. Huizinga MD, PhD,  Marc D. Jansen,  Jan G. J. van de Winkel PhD, 
  • Pages: 1125-1126
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Thromboembolic events after fetal loss in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome: Comment on the article by Erkan et al

Angela Tincani MD,  Marco Taglietti MD,  Chiara Biasini MD,  Micol Frassi MD,  Roberto Gorla MD,  Genesio Balestrieri MD, 
  • Pages: 1126-1127
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Reply

Doruk Erkan MD,  Joan T. Merrill MD,  Yusuf Yazici MD,  Lisa Sammaritano MD,  Jill P. Buyon MD,  Michael D. Lockshin MD, 
  • Page: 1127
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Pro-myeloperoxidase, a target antigen for antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies: Comment on the article by Russell et al

Dominique Reumaux,  Patrick Duthilleul PhD,  William M. Nauseef MD,  Dirk Roos PhD, 
  • Pages: 1127-1129
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Somatization and development of chronic widespread pain: Comment on the article by McBeth et al and the editorial by Winfield

Richard Kwiatek MBBS, FRACP, 
  • Pages: 1129-1130
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Reply

John McBeth PhD,  Gary J. Macfarlane PhD,  Alan J. Silman MD, 
  • Page: 1130
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Polymerase chain reaction testing for Tropheryma whippelii in unexplained isolated cases of arthritis

Xavier Puéchal MD,  Thierry Schaeverbeke MD, PhD,  Jean Sibilia MD, PhD,  Alain Saraux MD, PhD,  Jean-Dominique Poveda MD, 
  • Pages: 1130-1132
  • First Published: 05 April 2002

Announcements

ACR announcement

  • Pages: 21A-22A
  • First Published: 05 April 2002