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    Association Study of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Rs4552569/Rs17095830 with Ankylosing Spondylitis in A Chinese Population

    Qingwen Wang, Yuanyuan Yang, Jiyang Lv, Qi Lin, Luo Wang and Zhengyu Fang

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 1.
    Electronic Publication Date: January 29, 2016
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    An Open Randomized Trial Comparing the Effects of Oral NSAIDs Versus Steroid Intra-Articular Infiltration in Congestive Osteoarthritis of the Knee

    Ouédraogo Dieu-Donné, Ouédraogo Théodore, Zabsonré/Tiendrébéogo Joëlle, Dionou Pierre, Ouédraogo Smaïla, Compaoré Christian, Kaboré Fulgence and Drabo Youssouf Joseph

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 8.
    Electronic Publication Date: February 29, 2016
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    Two-Year Safety and Efficacy Experience in Patients with Methotrexate-Resistant Active Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Etanercept and Conventional Disease-Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs in the Latin American Region

    Daniel A. Machado, Renato Guzman, Ricardo M. Xavier, Jesus A. Simon, Linda Mele, Qi Shen, Ronald Pedersen, Sameer Kotak and Bonnie Vlahos

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 13.
    Electronic Publication Date: February 29, 2016
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    Is Hearing Impairment Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis? A Review

    Amir Emamifar, Kristine Bjoerndal and Inger M.J. Hansen

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 26.
    Electronic Publication Date: March 15, 2016
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    IgG4-Related Lung Disease Associated with Usual Interstitial Pneumonia

    Frank Schneider, Kristen L. Veraldi, Marc C. Levesque, Thomas V. Colby and Eunhee S. Yi

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 33.
    Electronic Publication Date: March 17, 2016
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    Hepatitis B Serology in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases

    Martin Feuchtenberger, Arne Schäfer, Axel Philipp Nigg and Michael Rupert Kraus

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 39.
    Electronic Publication Date: August 31, 2016
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    Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: Predictors of Plaque Occurrence and Progression Over 24 Weeks

    Janet E. Pope, Tatiana Nevskaya, Lillian Barra and Grace Parraga

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 49.
    Electronic Publication Date: September 30, 2016
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    Medication-related Self-management Behaviors among Arthritis Patients: Does Attentional Coping Style Matter?

    Lorie L. Geryk, Susan J. Blalock, Robert F. DeVellis, Joanne M. Jordan, Paul K. J. Han and Delesha M. Carpenter

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 60.
    Electronic Publication Date: September 30, 2016
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    The Avise Lupus Test and Cell-bound Complement Activation Products Aid the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    James Mossell, John A. Goldman, Derren Barken and Roberta Vezza Alexander

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 71.
    Electronic Publication Date: October 31, 2016
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    Arthritis of the Knee Joint in Rheumatoid Arthritis - Evaluation of Treatment Response by Ultrasound in Daily Clinical Practice

    VS Schäfer, WA Schmidt, M Backhaus and W Hartung

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 81.
    Electronic Publication Date: October 31, 2016
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    Open-label Study of Initial and Repeat Treatment Cycles of Hylan G-F 20 in Patients with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis

    Robert Heger, Günther Paulsen, Ulrich Fickert and Michael Kresmann

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 88.
    Electronic Publication Date: October 31, 2016
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    Two Subsets of Large Vessel Vasculitis Characterized by the Absence or Presence of Spondyloarthritis or its Associated Diseases

    Diana Ernst, Niklas Bearlecken, Reinhold Ernst Schmidt and Torsten Witte

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 101.
    Electronic Publication Date: November 30, 2016
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    Fibromyalgia Outcomes Over Time: Results from a Prospective Observational Study in the United States

    Caroline P. Schaefer, Edgar H. Adams, Margarita Udall, Elizabeth T. Masters, Rachael M. Mann, Shoshana R. Daniel, Heather J. McElroy, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Andrew G. Clair, Markay Hopps, Roland Staud, Philip Mease and Stuart L. Silverman

    The Open Rheumatology Journal , 2016; 10: 109.
    Electronic Publication Date: November 30, 2016
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    Anti-MDA5 Antibody Dermatomyositis Overlap with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

    Emily C. Milam, Jacobo Futran and Andrew G. Franks Jr.

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 122.
    Electronic Publication Date: November 30, 2016
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  • REVIEW ARTICLE

    A Review of Chikungunya Virus-induced Arthralgia: Clinical Manifestations, Therapeutics, and Pathogenesis

    Brad A. Goupil and Christopher N. Mores

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 129.
    Electronic Publication Date: November 30, 2016
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    The Correlation of Muscle Biopsy Scores with the Clinical Variables in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

    Suparaporn Wangkaew, Songkiet Suwansirikul, Kantawut Aroonrungwichian, Nuntana Kasitanon and Worawit Louthrenoo

    The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2016; 10: 141.
    Electronic Publication Date: December 16, 2016
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        Volume: 12, 2018

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        Dr. Xiaodong Zhou is a professor of Internal Medicine in the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. His major research interests include inflammation, fibrosis, genetics and autoimmunity in scleroderma, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and other rheumatic diseases. He holds editorial positions in multiple medical and translational journals.

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        • The Prevalence of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis Among Malaysian Type 2 Diabetic Patients Using Quantitative Ultrasound Densitometer

          April 25, 2018
        • DNA Methylation in Osteoarthritis: Current Status and Therapeutic Implications

          March 30, 2018
        • High Secretion of Interleukin-6 and Increased MINCLE Receptor Expression Upon Exposure to Mycobacterial Cord Factor Analog Trehalose-6, 6-Dibehenate (TDB) in Patients with Takayasu Arteritis

          March 28, 2018
        • Interethnic Variations and Clinical Features of Spondyloarthropathies in a Middle Eastern Country

          March 07, 2018
        • Role of Diet in Influencing Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity

          February 08, 2018
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            Three more Bentham Science Journals indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Thomson Reuters
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            Thomson Reuters has selected the following Journals published by Bentham Science Publishers for coverage in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index launched by Thomson Reuters, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields.

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            The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is a new index launched by Thomson Reuters, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields.

            Adolescent Psychiatry publishes original research, critical reviews of topics relevant to practitioners, clinical observations with analysis and discussion, analysis of philosophical, ethical or social aspects of the fields of psychiatry and mental health, case reports with discussions, letters, and position papers.

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            Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Current Applied Polymer Science. The inaugural journal issue is available online for free access here: https://benthamscience.com/journals/current-applied-polymer-science/volume/1/issue/1/

            Current Applied Polymer Science publishes expert review articles and thematic issues in all applied aspects of polymer science. The founding editor of Current Applied Polymer Science is Dr. Sixun Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China). View the full editorial board of the journal here.

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            Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business) has selected the Bentham Science journal Current Molecular Pharmacology for coverage in the Science Citation Index (SCI). The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and is made available online through different platforms, such as the Web of Science and SciSearch.

            Current Molecular Pharmacology publishes the latest developments in cellular and molecular pharmacology with a major emphasis on the mechanism of action of novel drugs under development, innovative pharmacological technologies, cell signaling, transduction pathway analysis, genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics applications to drug action.

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            Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business) has selected the Bentham Science journal Current Psychiatry Reviews for coverage in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of importance in emerging scientific fields.

            Current Psychiatry Reviews publishes frontier review articles and guest edited issues dedicated to clinical research on all the latest advances on clinical psychiatry and its related areas e.g. pharmacology, epidemiology, clinical care and therapy. The journal is essential reading for all clinicians, psychiatrists and researchers in psychiatry.

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            MEDLINE indexes Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
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            Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, an important journal published by Bentham Science, is accepted to be included in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 23 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). For more information, view: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html/

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