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Type II collagen degradation and its regulation in articular cartilage in osteoarthritis

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Montreal, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, ...
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EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis

15 Department of Radiology. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands 16 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
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Infections and the risk of incident giant cell arteritis: a population-based, case-control study

Objectives Alterations in the immune system and infections are suspected to increase susceptibility to giant cell arteritis (GCA). Recently herpes zoster has been directly implicated in the ...
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Hepatic manifestations of autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Hepatic manifestations in autoimmune disease include chronic active hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia. These diseases are rare ...
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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part I): classification of paper patients by ...

Rheumatology, Med Klinik I, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany ...
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Diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests in subacromial impingement syndrome

OBJECTIVE Subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) is a frequent cause of shoulder pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests, in patients with SIS ...
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PUF60: a prominent new target of the autoimmune response in dermatomyositis and Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives Autoantibodies are used clinically to phenotype and subset patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. We detected a novel 60 kDa autoantibody specificity by immunoblotting using a ...
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Incidence trend of five common musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2017 at the global, regional and national level: results from the global burden of disease study 2017

Correspondence to Professor Lingyun Sun, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing 210008, China; ...
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The minimally important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for the Raynaud's condition score in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon in a large randomised controlled ...

1 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc, Bothell, ...
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The cathelicidins LL-37 and rCRAMP are associated with pathogenic events of arthritis in humans and rats

3 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Sweden 4 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, ...
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Lipophilic statins prevent matrix metalloproteinase-mediated cartilage collagen breakdown by inhibiting protein geranylgeranylation

1 Institute of Cellular Medicine, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Rheumatology, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 3 Department ...
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Th1 but not Th17 cells predominate in the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan H Yamada, Division of Host Defense, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1 ...