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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
Special Article
Review: Vasculitis in the Central Nervous System
Leonard H. Calabreese, George F. Duna, and J. T. Lie 1189
Clinical Science
Preliminary Definition of Improvement in Juvenile Arthritis
Edward H. Giannini, Nicolino Ruperto, Angelo Ravelli, Daniel J. Lovell, David T. Felson, and Alberto Martini 1202
T Cell Responses to Human Type II Collagen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Healthy Controls
Neil Snowden, Irena Reynolds, Keith Morgan, and Lennox Holt 1210
Mycoplasma Infection and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Analysis of Their Relationship Using Immunoblotting and an Ultrasensitive Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection Method
Robert W. Hoffman, Frank X. O'Sullivan, Kim R. Schafermeyer, Terry L. Moore, Deborah Roussell, Robyn Watson-McKown, Mary F. Kim, and Kim S. Wise 1219
Fibrosing Alveolitis in Systemic Sclerosis: Indices of Lung Function in Relation to Extent of Disease on Computed Tomography
A. U. Wells, D. M. Hansell, M. B. Rubens, A. D. King, D. Cramer, C. M. Black, and R. M. du Bois 1229
Scleroderma Lung Fibroblasts Exhibit Elevated and Dysregulated Type I Collagen Biosynthesis
Xu Shi-Wen, Christopher P. Denton, Alan McWhirter, George Bou-Gharios, David J. Abraham, Roland M. du Bois, and Carol M. Black 1237
Pregnancy in Relapsing Polychondritis: Twenty-Five Pregnancies in Eleven Patients
Thomas Papo, Bertrand Wechsler, Olivier Bletry, Anne-Marie Piette, Pierre Godeau, and Jean-Charles Piette 1245
Usefulness of Procalcitonin for Differentiation Between Activity of Systemic Autoimmune Disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus/Systemic Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis) and Invasive Bacterial Infection
O. K. Eberhard, M. Haubitz, F. M. Brunkhorst, V. Kliem, K. M. Koch, and R. Brunkhorst 1250
Clinical, Serologic, and Immunogenetic Features in Polish Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, Elzbieta Kowalska-Oledzka, Frederick W. Miller, Maria Jarzabek-Chorzelska, Ira N. Targoff, Maria Blaszczyk-Kostanecka, and Stefania Jablonska 1257
The AIMS2-SF: A Short Form of the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2
Francis Guillemin, Joel Coste, Jacques Pouchot, Marc Ghezail, Christian Bregeon, Jacques Sany, and The French Quality of Life in Rheumatology Group 1267
Basic Science
Differential Effects of Aging on Human Chondrocyte Responses to Transforming Growth Factor β: Increased Pyrophosphate Production and Decreased Cell Proliferation
Fred Rosen, Greg McCabe, Jacqueline Quach, Joell Solan, Robert Terkeltaub, J. Edwin Seegmiller, and Martin Lotz 1275
Alteration of Cartilage Metabolism by Cells from Osteoarthritic Bone
Carole I. Westacott, Ginette R. Webb, Mark G. Warnock, Jane V. Sims, and Christopher J. Elson 1282
Inhibition of Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblast Proliferation by Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeting Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen Messenger RNA
Yoshitaka Morita, Naoki Kashihara, Masahiro Yamamura, Hideyuki Okamoto, Seishi Harada, Yohei Maeshima, Kazunori Okamoto, and Hirofumi Makino 1292
Interleukin-1β-Stimilated Invasion of Articular Cartilage by Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblasts is Inhibited by Antibodies to Specific Integrin Receptors and by Collagenase Inhibitors
Allan Z. Wang, Jane C. Wang, Gregory W. Fisher, and Herbert S. Diamond 1298
Adenosine A Receptor Promotion of Multinucleated Giant Cell Formation by Human Monocytes: A Mechanism for Methotrexate-Induced Nodulosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Joan T. Merrill, Christine Shen, David Schreibman, Dan Coffey, Olga Zakharenko, Robert Fisher, Robert G. Lahita, Jane Salmon, and Bruce N. Cronstein 1308
Use of T Cell Reeptor/HLA-DRB1*04 Molecular Modeling to Predict Site-Specific Interactions for the DR Shared Epitope Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Julie E. Penzotti, Gerald T. Nepom, and Terry P. Lybrand 1316
Involvement of Endogenous Kinins in the Pathogenesis of Peptidoglycan-Induced Arthritis in the Lewis Rat
Charles Blais, Jr., R‚jean Couture, Guy Drapeau, Robert W. Colman, and Albert Adam 1327
Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Lupus. III. Sex-Specific Differences in T Cell Homing May Explain Increased Disease Severity in Female Mice
Raymond Yung, Robert Williams, Kent Johnson, Carrie Phillips, Lloyd Stoolman, Sandra Chang, and Bruce Richardson 1334
Human Autoantibodies Stabilize the Quaternary Structure of Ku Antigen
Jingsong Wang, Xingwen Dong, Lovorka Stojanov, Donald Kimpel, Minoru Satoh, and Westley H. Reeves 1344
Clinical Images
Skin Hyperpigmentation Associated with Minocycline Therapy
Herbert Kaplan 1353
Case Report
Wegener's Granulomatosis in Pregnancy
Phot Luisiri, Nancy Joseph Lance, and James J. Curran 1354
Radiologic Vignette
Bone Pain in a Transplant Patient
John H. Stone, Charles G. Peterfy, and Kenneth E. Sack 1361
Concise Communication
Correlation of Serum IgG Antibodies to Recombinant P0 Fusiuon Protein with IgG Antibodies to Carboxyl-Terminal 22 Synthetic Peptides and Carobxyl-Terminal 22 Amino Acid-Deleted Recombinant P0 Fusion Protein in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Taku Yoshio, Jun-Ichi Masuyama, Seiji Minota, Masahiro Iwamoto, Akio Mimori, Akira Takeda, Hitoaki Okazaki, and Shogo Kano 1364
Letters
Antibodies to β2-Glycoprotein I in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Comment on the Articles by Tsutsumi et al and Roubey et al
Murat Inanc and David A. Isenberg 1366
Reply
Akito Tsutsumi, Eiji Matsuura, Kenji Ichikawa, and Takao Koike 1366
Reply
Robert A. S. Roubey and Michael A. Maldonado 1367
Tumor Necrosis Factor a Microsatellite Polymorphism in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Comment on the Article by Hajeer et al
A. Perdriger, G. ChalŠs, M. Alizadeh, and G. Semana 1368
Reply
Ali H. Hajeer, Jane Worthington, Alan J. Silman, and William E. R. Ollier 1370
Effects of Interferon á-1B in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case Report
Joseph A. Jabaily and J. Stephen Thompson 1370
