Correspondence to Dr Tristan Maerz, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; tmaerz{at}med.umich.edu Objectives Synovium is acutely affected following joint ...

Correspondence to Dr Bryant R England, Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA; bryant.england{at}unmc.edu Objectives To compare the onset ...

Objectives Fatigue is a frequent symptom in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and has high impact on quality of life. We explored associations between disease activity and fatigue in patients with early RA ...

7 CIRI/Rheumatology & Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune-Mediated Disease (CIMD), Goethe University, Frankfurt, ...

Objectives Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) are multipotent cells giving rise to both myeloid and lymphoid cell lineages. We reasoned that the aberrancies of immune cells in systemic ...

3 Center for Applied Statistics and School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Objectives Open-labelled clinical trials suggested that low-dose IL-2 might be effective in ...

Objectives To investigate the effect of the L-arginine metabolism on arthritis and inflammation-mediated bone loss. Methods L-arginine was applied to three arthritis models (collagen-induced arthritis ...

Objectives NFIL3 is a key immunological transcription factor, with knockout mice studies identifying functional roles in multiple immune cell types. Despite the importance of NFIL3, little is known ...

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of the type I interferon receptor antibody, anifrolumab, in patients with active, biopsy-proven, Class III/IV lupus nephritis. Methods This phase II ...

2 Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Arthritis and Rehabilitation, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria Objective The FORWARD (FGF-18 Osteoarthritis Randomized Trial with Administration of ...

4 Institute of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center EMN, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Objectives CD19-targeting chimeric ...

Objectives Fibromyalgia is commonly considered a stress-related chronic pain disorder, and daily stressors are known triggers. However, the relation between stress and pain development remains poorly ...