Erratum: Diabetologia (1997) 40: 963-970

Erratum: Vol. 66, No. 40

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Isoniazid (INH) treatment can cause serious liver injury and autoimmunity. There are now several lines of evidence that INHinduced liver injury is immune mediated, but this type of liver injury has not been reproduced in animals, possibly because immune tolerance is the dominant response of the liver. In this study, we immunized mice with isonicotinic acid (INA)-modified proteins and Freund’s a...

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Huntington’s disease is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal polyglutamine expansion in huntingtin (Exp-HTT) leading to degeneration of striatal neurons. Altered brain cholesterol homeostasis has been implicated in Huntington’s disease, with increased accumulation of cholesterol in striatal neurons yet reduced levels of cholesterol metabolic precursors. To elucidat...

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In this issue of Rheumatology, Stolwijk et al. [1] evaluate the validity of the self-administered co-morbidity questionnaire (SCQ) developed with the aim of assessing co-morbidity in AS. The article could not have a better justification and timing. Rheumatologists have witnessed remarkable advances in the last decade regarding the management of rheumatic diseases, mainly in the field of measure...

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Background. Cardiovascular disease is still portrayed as a typical male disease, and men are more often submitted to invasive procedures or referred earlier. Aim. To explore sex differences in morbidity and referral patterns in cardiovascular disease in general practice, and the role of age and socioeconomic status. Method. Data were obtained from a continuous morbidity registration project in ...