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Ann Rheum Dis March 2010 Vol 69 No 3 473 1Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr Vivian P Bykerk, Mount Sinai, 75 Francis Street, PBB-B3, Boston, MA 02115, USA; [email protected] When does rheumatoid arthritis start and can it be stopped before it does? Vivian P B...

In this paper, a novel flow injection chemiluminescence (FI-CL) method is proposed for the determination of picomolar L(-1) levels of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) in exhaled breath condensate (EBC). This method is based on the oxidation of a low concentration of luminol (10(-7) M) by H(2)O(2) at a low concentration level (< 10(-8) M) in an alkaline medium catalyzed by a complex, K(5)[Cu(HIO(6))...

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Twelve clinical trials have documented that prednisone or prednisolone in doses of 10 mg/day or less is efficacious to improve function, maintain status and/or slow radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An early trial reported by de Andrade et al. [Ann Rheum Dis 1964; 23: 158–162] in 1964 indicated that 5 mg of prednisolone at night was preferred to 5 mg of predni...

Rheum palmatum has been used most frequently in the weight-reducing formulae in traditional Chinese medicine. However, the components of Rheum palmatum that play the antiobesity role are still uncertain. Here, we tested the weight-reducing effect of two major Rheum palmatum compounds on db/db mouse. We found that rhein (100 mg kg(-1) day(-1)), but not emodin, reduced the fat weight in db/db mou...

Twelve clinical trials have documented that prednisone or prednisolone in doses of 10 mg/day or less is efficacious to improve function, maintain status and/or slow radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An early trial reported by de Andrade et al. [Ann Rheum Dis 1964;23:158-162] in 1964 indicated that 5 mg of prednisolone at night was preferred to 5 mg of predniso...

Zhang W, Jones A, Doherty M. Does paracetamol (acetaminophen) reduce the pain of osteoarthritis? A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Ann Rheum Dis 2004;63:901–7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Twelve clinical trials have documented that prednisone or prednisolone in doses of 10 mg/day or less is efficacious to improve function, maintain status and/or slow radiographic progression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). An early trial reported by de Andrade et al. [Ann Rheum Dis 1964; 23: 158–162] in 1964 indicated that 5 mg of prednisolone at night was preferred to 5 mg of predni...