Translating research into clinical practice Editors-in-Chief: Peter E Lipsky, Bethesda, USA and Ravinder N Maini, London, UK
Research highlight:
Stem cell discrepancy in arthritis
Murine bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells dose-dependently suppress T cell proliferation in vitro, but are unable to influence the disease course in a mouse model of collagen-induced arthritis.
Research article Work disability remains a major problem in rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from 32 countries in the QUEST-RA study Tuulikki Sokka, Hannu Kautiainen, Theodore Pincus, Suzanne MM Verstappen, Amita Aggarwal, Rieke Alten, Daina Andersone, Humeira Badsha, Eva Baecklund, Miguel Belmonte, Jurgen Craig-Muller, Licia Maria Henrique da Mota, Alexander Dimic, Nihal A Fathi, Gf Ferraccioli, Watary Fukuda, Pal Geher, Feride Gogus, Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni, Hisham Hamoud, Glenn Haugeberg, Dan Henrohn, Kim Horslev-Petersen, Ruxandra Ionescu, Dmitry Karateew, Reet Kuuse, Ieda Maria Magalhaes Laurindo, Juris Lazovskis, Reijo Luukkainen, Ayman Mofti, et al. Arthritis Research & Therapy2010, 12:R42 (12 March 2010) [Abstract][Provisional PDF]
To mark its 10th anniversary, Arthritis Research & Therapy is publishing a freely available, four-part collection of new review articles.
This special issue provides an in depth overview of the current status of basic and clinical research in rheumatology.
A patient's response
(Kelly Young, 24Feb2010)
I disagree with the premises and conclusions of this article. My full reply is here. In addition to living with Rheumatoid Arthritis personally, I have compared the responses...
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The intriguing CD4+CD25-/lowFoxp3+ cells in SLE
(Xuan Zhang, 09Feb2010)
The Fluorescence intensity of CD25 is apparently influenced by the staining intensity of the conjugated antibody and the setup of flow cytometer parameters, therefore definition...
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