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  1. In spondyloarthritides (SpA) and fibromyalgia (FM), patients suffer from generalized pain. The impact of FM on PRO validated in SpA has not been systematically studied.

    Authors: Styliani Tsiami, Piet Dukatz, Maria Gkelaki, Philipp Sewerin, Uta Kiltz and Xenofon Baraliakos
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:141
  2. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients sometimes exhibit different levels of improvement in health assessment questionnaire-disability index (HAQ-DI) and subjective pain visual analogue score (VAS) even after achi...

    Authors: Sae Ochi, Koshiro Sonomoto, Shingo Nakayamada and Yoshiya Tanaka
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:140
  3. Neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) contribute to the vascular complications of multiple diseases, but their role in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is understudied. We sought to test the hypothesis...

    Authors: Neda Kortam, Wenying Liang, Claire Shiple, Suiyuan Huang, Rosemary Gedert, James St. Clair, Cyrus Sarosh, Caroline Foster, Pei-Suen Tsou, John Varga, Jason S. Knight, Dinesh Khanna and Ramadan A. Ali
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:139
  4. Define the prevalence and location of inflammatory and structural lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA) with ...

    Authors: David Kiefer, Mina Soltani, Parham Damirchi, Uta Kiltz, Bjoern Buehring, Ioana Andreica, Philipp Sewerin and Xenofon Baraliakos
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:138
  5. To determine the risk factors for mortality in Korean patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) in comparison to patients with RA but without ILD (RA-nonILD).

    Authors: Yeo-Jin Song, Hyoungyoung Kim, Soo-Kyung Cho, Hye Won Kim, Chaewhi Lim, Eunwoo Nam, Chan-Bum Choi, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Sang-Cheol Bae, Dae Hyun Yoo, Su Jin Hong, Seung-Jin Yoo, Youkyung Lee and Yoon-Kyoung Sung
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:137
  6. In the EDITA trial, patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and mild pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) treated with ambrisentan had a significant decline of pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) but not of mean pu...

    Authors: Panagiota Xanthouli, Paul Uesbeck, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Norbert Blank, Christina A. Eichstaedt, Satenik Harutyunova, Benjamin Egenlauf, Jerry G. Coghlan, Christopher P. Denton, Ekkehard Grünig and Nicola Benjamin
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:136
  7. With great interest, we have read the recent article “Expression of HIF1α in intestinal epithelium restricts arthritis inflammation by inhibiting RIPK3-induced cell death machinery” published by Lyu et al. in Ann...

    Authors: George D. Kalliolias and Athanasios G. Papavassiliou
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:135
  8. To investigate the distribution and activation of B-cell subpopulations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKis) and to analyze their correlation with disease remission.

    Authors: Jing Luo, Jing Zhang, Bomiao Ju, Yanhua Wang, Nan Hu, Qian Li, Qianyun Xu, Dan Pu, Zhiming Hao, Yongwei Huo, Xiaohong Lv and Lan He
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:134
  9. Most estimates of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevalence, including all official figures in Australia and many other countries, are based on self-report. Self-report has been shown to overestimate RA, but the ‘g...

    Authors: Louise Koller-Smith, Ahmed Mehdi, Lyn March, Leigh Tooth, Gita D. Mishra and Ranjeny Thomas
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:133
  10. The increased availability of myositis autoantibodies represents new possibilities and challenges in clinical practice (Lundberg IE, Tjärnlund A, Bottai M, Werth VP, Pilkington C, de Visser M, et al. 2017 Euro...

    Authors: Falk Schumacher, Maximilian Zimmermann, Malte Kanbach, Wigbert Schulze, Maximilian Wollsching-Strobel, Doreen Kroppen, Sarah Bettina Stanzel, Daniel Majorski, Wolfram Windisch, Johannes Strunk and Melanie Berger
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:132
  11. Association of HLA-B27 with spondyloarthritis (SpA) has been known for 50 years, but still remains unexplained. We recently showed that HLA-B27 expressed in wing imaginal disc from HLA-B27/human-β2 microglobul...

    Authors: Marc Lauraine, Maxence de Taffin de Tilques, Dganit Melamed-Kadosh, Bilade Cherqaoui, Vincent Rincheval, Erwan Prevost, Aurore Rincheval-Arnold, Eneida Cela, Arie Admon, Isabelle Guénal, Luiza M. Araujo and Maxime Breban
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:131
  12. The aim of this prospective observational cohort study was to unveil the predictors of treatment response to tocilizumab (TCZ) therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, in terms of clinical characteristic...

    Authors: Jingbo Su, Wenlu Hu, Yanxia Ding, Panpan Zhang, Tianfang Li, Shengyun Liu and Lihua Xing
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:130
  13. Despite the extensive research to provide a disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD), there is still no approved DMOAD. Dual amylin and calcitonin receptor agonists (DACRA) can provide metabolic benefits ...

    Authors: Khaled Elhady Mohamed, Anna Thorsø Larsen, Simone Melander, Frederik Andersen, Ellen Barendorff Kerrn, Morten Asser Karsdal and Kim Henriksen
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:129
  14. Authors: Javier Narvaez, Elena Canadillas, Ivan Castellvi, Juan Jose Alegre, Vanesa Vicens‑Zygmunt, Guadalupe Bermudo, Paola Vidal-Montal, Maria Molina Molina and Joan Miquel Nolla
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:128

    The original article was published in Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:122

  15. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and CV mortality. Subclinical carotid atherosclerosis is independently associated with rates of incident CV events a...

    Authors: Marta Hernández-Díaz, Dara Rodríguez-González, Elena Heras-Recuero, Fuensanta Gómez-Bernal, Juan Carlos Quevedo-Abeledo, Agustín F. González-Rivero, Elena González-López, J. Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals, Alejandro Jimenez-Sosa, Miguel Ángel González-Gay and Iván Ferraz-Amaro
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:127
  16. Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with poor treatment outcomes. The role and underlying mechanisms of ferroptosis in LN remain largely unknown. We aimed to exp...

    Authors: Li Zhang, Qing Yan, Miao Lin, Juanjuan He, Jie Tian, Zhihan Chen and Fuyuan Hong
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:126
  17. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) comprises a heterogeneous group of conditions that can cause marked disability and diminished quality of life. Data on predictors of clinical response are insufficient to gu...

    Authors: Hermine I Brunner, Grant S Schulert, Alyssa Sproles, Sherry Thornton, Gabriel Vega Cornejo, Jordi Antón, Ruben Cuttica, Michael Henrickson, Ivan Foeldvari, Daniel J Kingsbury, Margarita Askelson, Jinqi Liu, Sumanta Mukherjee, Robert L Wong, Daniel J Lovell, Alberto Martini…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:125
  18. To determine the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and its treatment and interstitial lung disease in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc).

    Authors: A. Quinlivan, D. Neuen, D. Hansen, W. Stevens, L. Ross, N. Ferdowsi, S. M. Proudman, J. G. Walker, J. Sahhar, G-S. Ngian, D. Apostolopoulos, L. V. Host, G. Major, C. Basnayake, K. Morrisroe and M. Nikpour
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:124
  19. Treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are associated with complex changes in lipids and lipoproteins that may impact cardiovascular (CV) risk. The objective of this study was to examine lipid and lipoprotei...

    Authors: Katherine P. Liao, Pamela Rist, Jon Giles, Leah Santacroce, Margery A. Connelly, Robert J. Glynn, Paul Ridker, Ahmed Tawakol, Joan Bathon and Daniel H. Solomon
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:123
  20. To assess the real-world, long-term effectiveness of rituximab (RTX) as a rescue therapy in patients with antisynthetase syndrome and progressive interstitial lung disease (ASS-ILD).

    Authors: Javier Narváez, Elena Cañadillas, Iván Castellví, Juan José Alegre, Vanesa Vicens-Zygmunt, Guadalupe Bermudo, Paola Vidal-Montal, María Molina Molina and Joan Miquel Nolla
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:122

    The Correction to this article has been published in Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:128

  21. Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, such as baricitinib, are widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Clinical studies show that baricitinib is more effective at reducing pain than other similar drugs. Here,...

    Authors: Kenta Makabe, Hiroyuki Okada, Naohiro Tachibana, Hisatoshi Ishikura, Norihito Ito, Masaru Tanaka, Ryota Chijimatsu, Asuka Terashima, Fumiko Yano, Meiko Asaka, Dai Yanagihara, Shuji Taketomi, Takumi Matsumoto, Sakae Tanaka, Yasunori Omata and Taku Saito
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:121
  22. Kinases are intracellular signalling mediators and key to sustaining the inflammatory process in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Oral inhibitors of Janus Kinase family (JAKs) are widely used in RA, while inhibitors...

    Authors: Cankut Çubuk, Rachel Lau, Pedro Cutillas, Vinothini Rajeeve, Christopher R. John, Anna E. A. Surace, Rebecca Hands, Liliane Fossati-Jimack, Myles J. Lewis and Costantino Pitzalis
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:120
  23. In gout, monosodium urate crystals are taken up by macrophages, triggering the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and the maturation of IL-1β. This study aimed to investigate the role of integrin CD11b in in...

    Authors: Driss Ehirchiou, Ilaria Bernabei, Vishnuprabu Durairaj Pandian, Sonia Nasi, Veronique Chobaz, Mariela Castelblanco, Alexander So, Fabio Martinon, Xiaoyun Li, Hans Acha-Orbea, Thomas Hugle, Li Zhang and Nathalie Busso
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:119
  24. Primary osteoarthritis (OA) occurs without identifiable underlying causes such as previous injuries or specific medical conditions. Age is a major contributing factor to OA, and as one ages, various joint tiss...

    Authors: Sher Bahadur Poudel, Ryan R. Ruff, Gozde Yildirim, Richard A. Miller, David E. Harrison, Randy Strong, Thorsten Kirsch and Shoshana Yakar
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:118
  25. The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of PF‑06835375, a potent selective afucosyl immunoglobulin G1 antibody targeting C-X-C chemokine rec...

    Authors: Stanley Cohen, Jean S. Beebe, Vishala Chindalore, Shunjie Guan, Mina Hassan-Zahraee, Madhurima Saxena, Li Xi, Craig Hyde, Sarita Koride, Robert Levin, Shannon Lubaczewski, Mikhail Salganik, Abigail Sloan, Erin Stevens, Elena Peeva, Michael S. Vincent…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:117
  26. A substantial proportion of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) relapse despite standard therapy with glucocorticoids, methotrexate and tocilizumab. The Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of tra...

    Authors: Javier Loricera, Toluwalase Tofade, Diana Prieto-Peña, Susana Romero-Yuste, Eugenio de Miguel, Anne Riveros-Frutos, Iván Ferraz-Amaro, Eztizen Labrador, Olga Maiz, Elena Becerra, Javier Narváez, Eva Galíndez-Agirregoikoa, Ismael González-Fernández, Ana Urruticoechea-Arana, Ángel Ramos-Calvo, Fernando López-Gutiérrez…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:116
  27. Immune checkpoints have emerged as promising therapeutic targets for autoimmune diseases. However, the specific roles of immune checkpoints in the pathophysiology of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) remain unclear.

    Authors: Feihong Huang, Zhiping Su, Yibin Huang, Yuxiang Huang, Chengyu Zhou, Sitan Feng, Xiong Qin, Xi Xie, Chong Liu and Chaojie Yu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:115
  28. Gout is a prevalent manifestation of metabolic osteoarthritis induced by elevated blood uric acid levels. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanisms of gene expression regulation in gout disea...

    Authors: Yubiao Yang, Ping Hu, Qinnan Zhang, Boyuan Ma, Jinyu Chen, Bitao Wang, Jun Ma, Derong Liu, Jian Hao and Xianhu Zhou
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:114
  29. It has been reported that in western countries malignancy risk was higher in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) compared with that in the general population. I...

    Authors: Xiang-Yu Han, Zhi-Ying Li, Ming-Hui Zhao, Mark A. Little and Min Chen
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:113
  30. The progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) can be defined as either radiographic progression or pain progression. This study aimed to construct models to predict radiographic progression and pain progression ...

    Authors: Xiaoyu Li, Chunpu Li and Peng Zhang
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:112
  31. Due to the unclear pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA), effective treatment for this ailment is presently unavailable. Accumulating evidence points to chondrocyte senescence as a key driver in OA development. ...

    Authors: Yucheng Lin, Lu Zhang, Mingliang Ji, Sinuo Shen, Yuzhi Chen, Shichao Wu, Xiaotao Wu, Nancy Q. Liu and Jun Lu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:111
  32. Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) provide more comprehensive and informative perspective on microstructural alterations of cerebral white matter (W...

    Authors: Wenjun Hu, Ziru Qiu, Qin Huang, Yuhao Lin, Jiaying Mo, Linhui Wang, Jingyi Wang, Kan Deng, Yanqiu Feng, Xinyuan Zhang and Xiangliang Tan
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:110
  33. The 2022 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society (ESC/ERS) guideline has recently revised the hemodynamic definition of pulmonary arterial hypertension. However, there is currently limited ...

    Authors: Yutong Li, Junyan Qian, Xingbei Dong, Jiuliang Zhao, Qian Wang, Yanhong Wang, Xiaofeng Zeng, Zhuang Tian and Mengtao Li
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:109
  34. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic, potentially debilitating inflammatory arthritis often associated with psoriasis. Understanding the epidemiology of PsA across diverse populations can provide valuable in...

    Authors: Amir Haddad, Perach Chen Elkayam, Nili Stein, Ilan Feldhamer, Arnon Dov Cohen, Walid Saliba and Devy Zisman
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:108
  35. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis. PsA disease involves flares, which are associated with increased joint inflammation and tissue remodeling. There is a need for ...

    Authors: Solveig Skovlund Groen, Signe Holm Nielsen, Anne Christine Bay-Jensen, Mozhgan Rasti, Darshini Ganatra, Katerina Oikonomopoulou and Vinod Chandran
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:107
  36. Previously, fragments from Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) were identified in preclinical and clinical samples to display an increase in serum levels for N-terminal (NT) SIRT1 vs. C-terminal (CT) SIRT1, indicative of early ...

    Authors: Miya Marco, Mylène Jansen, Goran van der Weiden, Eli Reich, Yonathan H. Maatuf, Simon C. Mastbergen and Mona Dvir-Ginzberg
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:106
  37. Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Time to improvement in core domains of AS was estimated in tofacitinib-treated patients with AS.

    Authors: Victoria Navarro-Compán, Atul Deodhar, Rachid Bahiri, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Joseph C. Cappelleri and Jihane Rammaoui
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:105
  38. Epidemiological observational studies have elucidated a correlation between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and bronchiectasis. However, the causal nature of this association remains ambiguous. To clarify this poten...

    Authors: Zehu Chen, Xuegang Li, Honglei Shi, Yiying Huang and Jing Liu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:104
  39. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) play a central role in RA pathogenesis and are the main cellular component in the inflamed synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). FLSs are emerging as promisin...

    Authors: Hongyan Qian, Chaoqiong Deng, Shiju Chen, Xinwei Zhang, Yan He, Jingying Lan, Aodi Wang, Guixiu Shi and Yuan Liu
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:103
  40. To perform a detailed morphological analysis of the inorganic portion of two different clinical presentations of calcium-based deposits retrieved from subjects with SSc and identify a chemical dissolution of t...

    Authors: Phillip Lee, Lorraine Green, Bartosz Marzec, Fiona Meldrum, Francesco Del Galdo and Begonya Alcacer-Pitarch
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:102
  41. Exploring the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA) is important for its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Therefore, we aimed to construct novel signature genes (c-FRGs) combining cuproptosis-related genes ...

    Authors: Baoqiang He, Yehui Liao, Minghao Tian, Chao Tang, Qiang Tang, Fei Ma, Wenyang Zhou, Yebo Leng and Dejun Zhong
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:100
  42. This study aims to elucidate the transcriptomic signatures and dysregulated pathways in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), with a particular focus on those persisting during disease remission.

    Authors: Frank Qingyun Wang, Li Shao, Xiao Dang, Yong-Fei Wang, Shuxiong Chen, Zhongyi Liu, Yujing Mao, Yuping Jiang, Fei Hou, Xianghua Guo, Jian Li, Lili Zhang, Yuting Sang, Xuan Zhao, Ruirui Ma, Kai Zhang…
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:99
  43. Targeted small-molecule drugs in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have attracted increasing attention from clinical investigators. However, there is still a lack of evidence on the differenc...

    Authors: Shiheng Wang, Wanling Ning, Hanqing Tang, Chaochao Mu and Xiaosong Huang
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:98
  44. The macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a severe and life-threatening complication. Early diagnosis of MAS is particularly challenging. In this study, machin...

    Authors: Wenxun Lin, Xi Xie, Zhijun Luo, Xiaoqi Chen, Heng Cao, Xun Fang, You Song, Xujing Yuan, Xiaojing Liu and Rong Du
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:92
  45. Neutrophil extracellular trap formation and cell-free DNA (cfDNA) contribute to the inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but it is unknown if mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or nuclear DNA (nDNA) is more abund...

    Authors: Julia Lehmann, Stavros Giaglis, Diego Kyburz, Douglas Daoudlarian and Ulrich A. Walker
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:97
  46. Gout is caused by monosodium urate (MSU) crystals deposition to trigger immune response. A recent study suggested that inhibition of Class I Histone deacetylases (HDACs) can significantly reduce MSU crystals-i...

    Authors: Qi-Bin Yang, Meng-Yun Zhang, Liu Yang, Jie Wang, Qing-Sheng Mi and Jing-Guo Zhou
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:96
  47. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) related interstitial lung disease (ILD) impacts on the treatment strategy and its prognosis in patients with RA. However, the relationship between RA disease activity and the severity...

    Authors: Yuhei Ito, Yasutaka Ichikawa, Shuichi Murashima, Hajime Sakuma and Ayako Nakajima
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:95
  48. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by vascular injury and inflammation, followed by excessive fibrosis of the skin and other internal organs, including the lungs. CX3CL1 (fractalki...

    Authors: Takumi Hasegawa, Akira Utsunomiya, Takenao Chino, Hiroshi Kasamatsu, Tomomi Shimizu, Takashi Matsushita, Takashi Obara, Naoto Ishii, Hideaki Ogasawara, Wataru Ikeda, Toshio Imai, Noritaka Oyama and Minoru Hasegawa
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:94
  49. Anti-SS-A/Ro antibody (anti-SSA), the diagnostic marker of Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), is often detected in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Some patients are diagnosed with SSc/SS overlap syndromes, while there are ant...

    Authors: Tomoya Watanabe, Yasushi Ototake, Asami Akita, Mao Suzuki, Miwa Kanaoka, Jun Tamura, Yusuke Saigusa and Yukie Yamaguchi
    Citation: Arthritis Research & Therapy 2024 26:93

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