(RA) is a disease associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increased risk of cardio-vascular (CV) events. In this issue of Arthritis Research & Th erapy, Zampeli and colleagues [1] longitudinally assessed the association with new carotid artery plaques in a series of non-diabetic patients with RA. Besides highlighting the expected infl uence of age and traditional CV risk factors, the au...

480 D use diff erent strategies to survive and fl ourish with erratically available water (Hamerlynck et al., 2002; Lombardini, 2006). Th e persistence of soil water within a particular depth range and its characteristic time scales of fl uctuation (Katul et al., 2007) help determine the resulting plant community. Th e depth to which infi ltration percolates and the degree to which water is ret...

In the current study we examined how emotional expressions infl uence two social judgments, approachability and trustworthiness, and how the effect of emotional expression is modulated by the direction of the signaller’s eye gaze. For both social judgments, happy faces were judged more positively than all other emotions, while neutral faces were judged more favorably than faces displaying negat...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the infl uence of temperature on the viscosity of different endodontic irrigants. materials and methods: the measurements of viscosity of 3% hydrogen peroxide, 0.9% sodium chloride, aqueous solution of 0.2% chlorhexidine (chx) and 0.2% cetrimide, 5% sodium hypochlorite (naocl) and 17% ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (edta) at different temperature...

that anticentromere antibody (ACA)-positive primary Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) shows a clinical phenotype intermediate between ACA-negative SS and systemic sclerosis (SSc) [1]. In our past study investigating the clinical features of 62 patients with positive ACA, only one patient had typical CREST syndrome, 9 patients had Raynaud’s phenomenon (8 with sclerodactyly, telangiectasia or calcinosis), ...