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Methotrexate for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: process to approval for JIA indication in Japan

Masaaki Mori, Takuya Naruto, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Takuji Murata, Syuji Takei, Minako Tomiita, Yasuhiko Itoh, Satoshi Fujikawa, Shumpei Yokota

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Efficacy and safety of rebamipide for the treatment of dry mouth symptoms in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome: a double-blind placebo-controlled multicenter trial

Susumu Sugai, Hiroki Takahashi, Shuji Ohta, Makoto Nishinarita, Masami Takei, Shigemasa Sawada, Ken Yamaji, Hiroshi Oka, Hisanori Umehara, Ichiro Koni, Eiji Sugiyama, Susumu Nishiyama, Atsushi Kawakami

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Efficacy of mizoribine pulse therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who show a reduced or insufficient response to infliximab

Masanobu Horikoshi, Satoshi Ito, Mizue Ishikawa, Naoto Umeda, Yuya Kondo, Hiroto Tsuboi, Taichi Hayashi, Daisuke Goto, Isao Matsumoto, Takayuki Sumida

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Japan College of Rheumatology 2009 guidelines for the use of tocilizumab, a humanized anti-interleukin-6 receptor monoclonal antibody, in rheumatoid arthritis

Ryuji Koike, Masayoshi Harigai, Tatsuya Atsumi, Koichi Amano, Shinichi Kawai, Kazuyoshi Saito, Tomoyuki Saito, Masahiro Yamamura, Tsukasa Matsubara, Nobuyuki Miyasaka

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A new low-field extremity magnetic resonance imaging and proposed compact MRI score: evaluation of anti-tumor necrosis factor biologics on rheumatoid arthritis

Takeshi Suzuki, Satoshi Ito, Shinya Handa, Katsumi Kose, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Manabu Minami, Taichi Hayashi, Daisuke Goto, Isao Matsumoto, Takayuki Sumida

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Impact of trough serum level on radiographic and clinical response to infliximab plus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the RISING study

Tsutomu Takeuchi, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Kazuhiko Inoue, Tohru Abe, Takao Koike

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Efficacy and safety of tacrolimus for lupus nephritis: a placebo-controlled double-blind multicenter study

Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Shinichi Kawai, Hiroshi Hashimoto

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Gene therapy for arthritis

Russell S. Traister, Raphael Hirsch

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Retrospective clinical study on the notable efficacy and related factors of infliximab therapy in a rheumatoid arthritis management group in Japan: one-year clinical outcomes (RECONFIRM-2)

Yoshiya Tanaka, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Eisuke Inoue, Kazuyoshi Saito, Naoya Sekiguchi, Eri Sato, Masao Nawata, Hideto Kameda, Shigeru Iwata, Kouichi Amano, Hisashi Yamanaka

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Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: a global perspective on the use of antirheumatic drugs

Tuulikki Sokka, Minja Envalds, Theodore Pincus

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The role of cell death in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease: HMGB1 and microparticles as intercellular mediators of inflammation

Stacy P. Ardoin, David S. Pisetsky

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Retrospective clinical study on the notable efficacy and related factors of infliximab therapy in a rheumatoid arthritis management group in Japan: one-year outcome of joint destruction (RECONFIRM-2J)

Tsutomu Takeuchi, Hisashi Yamanaka, Eisuke Inoue, Hayato Nagasawa, Masao Nawata, Katsunori Ikari, Kazuyoshi Saito, Naoya Sekiguchi, Eri Sato, Hideto Kameda, Shigeru Iwata, Takeshi Mochizuki, Kouichi Amano, Yoshiya Tanaka

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T-cell activation via CD26 and caveolin-1 in rheumatoid synovium

Kei Ohnuma, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiko Uchiyama, Tadanori Yamochi, Osamu Hosono, Nam H. Dang, Chikao Morimoto

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Guidelines for the proper use of etanercept in Japan

Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Katsumi Eguchi

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Significance of antiprothrombin antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: clinical evaluation of the antiprothrombin assay and the antiphosphatidylserine/prothrombin assay, and comparison with other antiphospholipid antibody assays

Akito Tsutsumi, Taichi Hayashi, Yusuke Chino, Mizuko Mamura, Daisuke Goto, Isao Matsumoto, Satoshi Ito, Takayuki Sumida

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Cartilage destruction by matrix degradation products

Tadashi Yasuda

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Application of cellular gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Atsuo Nakajima

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Autoimmunity to citrullinated type II collagen in rheumatoid arthritis

Mamoru Yoshida, Michiko Tsuji, Daitaro Kurosaka, Daisaburo Kurosaka, Jun Yasuda, Yoshitaka Ito, Tetsuro Nishizawa, Akio Yamada

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A new conceptualization for Mikulicz's disease as an IgG4-related plasmacytic disease

Motohisa Yamamoto, Hiroki Takahashi, Mikiko Ohara, Chisako Suzuki, Yasuyoshi Naishiro, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yasuhisa Shinomura, Kohzoh Imai

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