Editor in Chief:

Swamy Venuturupalli
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
USA

Regional Editors:

H.M. Moutsopoulos
Department of Pathophysiology
University of Athens
Athens
Greece


K. Nishioka
Institute of Innovative Medical Science and Education
Tokyo Medical University
Tokyo
Japan

Section Editors:

Section: Cytokine Immunopathology

Fionula M. Brennan
Kenendy Institute of Rheumatology
Imperial College London
London
UK


Section: Scleroderma

Bashar Kahaleh
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
University of Toledo Medical Center
Toledo, Ohio
USA

George C. Tsokos
Harvard Medical School
Boston
USA

Editorial Advisory Board:

R.D. Altman (University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
T. Atsumi (Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan)
C.L. Backman (The University of British Columbia and Res. Sci., Vancouver, Canada)
D. Bader (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)
J.C. Bennett (BioCryst. Pharmaceuticals Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA)
S.J. Blalock (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
D.T. Boumpas (University Crete, Iraklion, Greece)
B. Bresnihan (St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland)
C. Brinckerhoff (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)
M. Brittberg (University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Sweden)
O. Bruyere (Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium)
J.A. Buckwalter (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
L.F. Callahan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
M.M. Cerinic (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
R. Cervera (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
H.S. Cheung (Miami VA Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA)
C.T. Chou (Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan)
I.M. Clark (University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK)
D.J. Clauw (University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
T. Conrozier (Ctr. Hosp. Lyon Sud, Pierre Benite, France)
J.C. Crispín (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
B.N. Cronstein (New York University, New York, NY, USA)
J. Darmawan (Indonesia Rheumatic Center, Jakarta, Indonesia)
A.M. Delany (University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA)
T. Dorner (Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany)
M. Dougados (Hopital Cochin, Paris, France)
F. Eckstein (Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria)
K. Eguchi (Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan)
G. Espinosa (Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain)
D.E. Furst (University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
M. Galeazzi (University of Siena, Siena, Italy)
A.Y. Gasparyan (Department of Rheumatology, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, West Midlands, UK)
S. Gay (University Zurich Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland)
P. Ghosh (University Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
M.B. Goldring (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA)
S. Guiducci (Department of BioMedicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
F. Guilak (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
E.V. Hess (University Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
R. Holmdahl (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
G.R. Hughes (The Rayne Institute, London, UK)
T.W. Huizinga (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
C. Jorgensen (Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier, France)
P.P. Katz (University Calif. San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA)
E.C. Keystone (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada)
M. Khamashta (St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK)
L. Klareskog (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
Y.T. Konttinen (Department of Medicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
V.B. Kraus (Kraus VB Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
V.C. Kyttaris (Division of Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
R.J. Lahita (Mount Sinai Medical School, Jersey City, NJ, USA)
N.E. Lane (University Calif. San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA)
G. Lapadula (University Bari, Bari, Italy)
M.R. Leirisalo (University Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
M.H. Liang (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)
J.P. Lin (Guy's & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK)
H. Malonne (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
A. Martini (University Genoa, Genoa, Italy)
E.L. Matteson (Mayo Clin. & Mayo Grad. Sch. Med., Rochester, MN, USA)
P.L. Meroni (University Milan, Milan, Italy)
S. Metyas (University of Southern California, Loss Angeles, USA)
O. Meyer (Hop. Bichat. Serv. Rhumatol., Paris, France)
P. Migliorini (University Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
P. Miossec (Hospital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France)
A. Mobasheri (University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington,Leicestershire, UK)
C.C. Mok (Tuen Mun Hosp., Hong Kong, China)
C. Montecucco (University Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
E. Morand (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
E. Naredo (Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain)
S. Ozen (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
T. Pap (University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany)
E. Pascual (Hosp. Gen. University Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
A. Perl (University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA)
J.-O. Pers (Laboratory of Immunology, CHU, Brest, France)
K.P. Pritzker (University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada)
G.J. Pruijn (University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
L. Punzi (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
P. Rahman (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada)
R. Rau (Evangel Fachkrankenhaus, Ratingen, Germany)
A. Ravelli (Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy)
J.Y. Reginster (University Liege, Liege, Belgium)
Y. Renaudineau (Brest University Medical School, CHU Morvan, Brest, France)
L.J. Sandell (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
E.M. Schwarz (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA)
R. Sontheimer (Universityof Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
A. Sulli (Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy)
E. Taal (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
P.P. Tak (University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W.J. Taylor (Wellington Sch. of Med. and Health Sci., Wellington, New Zealand)
A.G. Tzioufas (Natl. Tech. University Athens, Athens, Greece)
M.B. Urowitz (Toronto Western Hosp., Toronto, ON, Canada)
P.J. Utz (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
G. Valentini (Second University of Napoli, Naples, Italy)
G. Valesini (University of Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
L. Van De Putte (University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
P. Van Lent (University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
J. Vencovsky (Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic)
R.D. Wigley (Palmerston North Hosp., Palmerston North, New Zealand)
J.B. Winfield (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
K. Yamamoto (University Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
H. Yazici (University Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey)
P. Youinou (Brest University, Brest, France)
H. Zeidler (Hannover Med. School, Hannover, Germany)