• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-29

We are delighted to welcome you to the first printed issue ofArthritis Research, a publication that has already existed on the Internet for the last few months. This fact alone is an indication...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-29

WhenArthritis Researchwas launched in 1999 the publishers and ourselves took the innovative decision to make all primary research articles available to everyone for free through the journal's own...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This is a brief review of the third volume of the series edited by AN Theofilopoulos, "Current Directions in Autoimmunity". This hard-cover volume comprises 282 pages, 46 figures and 14 tables....

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a form of systemic vasculitis. It is characterized by granulomatous inflammation in the upper and lower airways, vasculitis and necrotizing glomerulonephritis, and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Synovial fibroblasts (SFs) have become a major target for ex vivo gene transfer in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but efficient transduction of RA-SFs still is a major problem. The low proliferation...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Major advances in technology now drive how we approach questions in immunology, particularly in analyzing complex data sets commonly encountered in genomics and proteomics studies. Active areas of...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The European Workshop for Rheumatology Research met this year in Leiden, The Netherlands. The Workshop provided a platform to feast on new technologies and how they have taken research programmes...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Simponi (golimumab) is a prescription medication manufactured by Janssen Biotech, Inc., used as a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blocker to treat inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-1, MMP-8 and MMP-13 are interstitial collagenases that degrade type II collagen in cartilage; this is a committed step in the progression of rheumatoid arthritis and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

Although early antibiotic treatment of patients with septic arthritis eradicates bacteria, joint destruction commonly results from the unregulated host inflammatory responses to infection. The...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-29

As readers may already be aware, the NIH have declared a plan that invites any journal that wishes to participate to deposit non-peer-reviewed research into PubMed Central, the new central...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Penicillamine is a prescription medication used as an antirheumatic agent to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. It comes as 250 mg oral tablets, manufactured by Lupin Pharmaceuticals,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Indomethacin is a prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) available as 75 mg extended-release oral capsules. It works by inhibiting cyclooxygenase enzymes to reduce pain,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

The knowledge of transcription factors and proto-oncogenes has influenced the understanding of cell regulation, cell cycle, and apoptotic cell death in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Leflunomide is a generic prescription drug classified as an antirheumatic agent. It is available in oral tablet form with strengths of 10mg and 20mg, used to manage inflammatory conditions like...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Celecoxib is a generic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to relieve pain, inflammation, and stiffness from conditions like arthritis. Manufactured by Amneal Pharmaceuticals as oral...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Prednisone is a generic corticosteroid medication available as 1 mg oral tablets, used to reduce inflammation and suppress the immune system for conditions like allergies, arthritis, and certain...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine sulfate) is a prescription tablet used to treat malaria and certain autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Each tablet contains 200 mg of the...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Dexamethasone 1.5 mg tablets are a prescription corticosteroid medication taken orally. As a corticosteroid hormone receptor agonist, it helps reduce inflammation and suppress the immune system,...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-03-17

Hydrocortisone is a prescription corticosteroid medication available as oral tablets in 5 mg, 10 mg, and 20 mg strengths. Manufactured by Aurobindo Pharma Limited, it works by reducing...

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