Objectives Although T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a comprehensive study of T-cell-mediated immune responses in the affected skin of patients with ...
3 The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, NanNing, China 4 The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, NanNing, China 5 The First Affiliated Hospital of ...
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Dr R G Cooper, Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD, UK; ...
Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) form a diverse group of diseases. Proper disease assessment is pivotal, for instance to make treatment choices and for optimising outcome in general. RMDs ...
1 University Hospital Tuebingen, Center for Interdisciplinary Rheumatology, Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases (INDIRA) and Department for Internal Medicine II (Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology and ...
Correspondence to Professor Ling Qin, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China; lingqin{at}cuhk.edu.hk; Professor Kingston King-lun Mak, Joint Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Guangzhou ...
Correspondence to Dr Mariana J Kaplan, Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MA ...
Objectives To investigate the role of mechanical stress in cartilage ageing and identify the mechanistic association during osteoarthritis (OA) progression. Conclusions FBXW7 is a key factor in the ...
Objective Autoantibodies against antigens carrying distinct post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as citrulline, homocitrulline or acetyllysine, are hallmarks of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The ...
Objective Randomised trials of type I anti-CD20 antibodies rituximab and ocrelizumab failed to show benefit in proliferative lupus nephritis (LN). We compared obinutuzumab, a humanised type II ...
Correspondence to Dr Ki-Jo Kim, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 93, Jungbu-daero, Paldal-gu, ...
Background: Current concepts of cartilage destruction in inflammatory arthritis include pannus infiltration by inflamed synovial tissue as well as direct detrimental effects of inflammatory cytokines ...