Background: Toll-Like Receptors (TLR) and Interleukin-1 Receptors (IL-1R) play a critical role in the innate immune response as microbial sensors, providing a bridge between the innate and adaptive ...

a St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland: Department of Rheumatology , b Department of Radiology Dr O FitzGerald, Department of Rheumatology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Republic of ...

23 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia and Universià degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy 24 Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Pediatria II, Reumatologia, Genova, Italy Correspondence to ...

Department of Laboratory Diagnostics, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Dr Yang Zaixing and Professor Renqian Zhong, Department of Laboratory ...

1 Division of Rheumatology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 2 Division of Internal Medicine, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain 3 Division of Clinical Biochemistry, La Paz University ...

1 Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

Good correlation has been shown between pain scores derived from 4 different rating scales. The correlation was maintained when presentation of the scales was separated by a series of questions and by ...

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to: Dr Sherine E Gabriel Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN ...

9 Center for Infectious Disease and Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 10 School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, College of Medicine, ...

Objectives: To examine the size and direction of osteophyte in knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to determine associations between osteophyte size and other radiographic features. Methods: Knee radiographs ...

Pathology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium Correspondence to Professor F A Houssiau, Rheumatology Department, Cliniques ...

Objectives Interferon-γ (IFNγ) is the pivotal mediator in murine models of primary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (pHLH). Given the similarities between primary and secondary HLH (sec-HLH), ...