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  Editors-in-Chief: Peter E Lipsky, Bethesda, USA and Ravinder N Maini, London, UK

 
 
 
 
Research highlight: Rheumatoid arthritis and work disability    Open Access
People in low-GDP countries remain working with higher levels of arthritis disease activity compared with people in high-GDP countries, suggesting that sociocultural differences affect work disability as an outcome measure for RA.
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R42

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B-lymphocyte stimulator/a proliferation-inducing ligand heterotrimers are elevated in the sera of patients with autoimmune disease and are neutralized by atacicept and B cell maturation antigen-immunoglobulin
Stacey R Dillon, Brandon Harder, Kenneth B Lewis, Margaret Moore, Hong Liu, Thomas R Bukowski, Nels B Hamacher, Megan M Lantry, Mark Maurer, Cecile M Krejsa, Jeff L Ellsworth, Susan Pederson, Keith B Elkon, Mark H Wener, Maria Dall'Era, Jane A Gross
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R48 (19 March 2010)
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Anticentromere antibody positive Sjogren's Syndrome: a retrospective descriptive analysis
Vasiliki-Kalliopi K Bournia, Konstantina D Diamanti, Panayiotis G Vlachoyiannopoulos, Haralampos M Moutsopoulos
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R47 (19 March 2010)
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Limited educational attainment and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Johnston County (North Carolina) Osteoarthritis Project
Leigh F Callahan, Jack Shreffler, Bernadette C Siaton, Charles G Helmick, Britta Schoster, Todd A Schwartz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Jordan B Renner, Joanne M Jordan
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R46 (18 March 2010)
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Slit3 inhibits Robo3-induced invasion of synovial fibroblasts in rheumatoid arthritis
Alexandra E Denk, Simone Kaufmann, Klaus Stark, Jorg Schedel, Torstetn Lowin, Thomas Schubert, Anja K Bosserhoff
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R45 (18 March 2010)
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Development of proteoglycan-induced arthritis depends on T cell-supported autoantibody production, but does not involve significant influx of T cells into the joints
Adrienn Angyal, Colt Egelston, Tamas Kobezda, Katalin Olasz, Anna Laszlo, Tibor T Glant, Katalin Mikecz
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:R44 (18 March 2010)
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Editorial    
Vasculogenesis in rheumatoid arthritis
Zoltán Szekanecz, Alisa E Koch
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2010, 12:110 (18 March 2010)
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The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress

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.

Complete collection free online





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Is there a feudal hierarchy amongst regulatory immune cells? More than just Tregs
Claudia Mauri, Natalie Carter
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2009, 11:237 (4 August 2009)
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