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Chronological Bibliography: Immuno-autonomics and rheumatoid arthritis.


1. Elenkov IJ, Wilder RL, Chrousos GP, Vizi ES. The sympathetic nerve – an integrative interface between two supersystems: the brain and the immune system. Pharmacol Rev 2000;52:595-638.


2. Tracey KJ, Czura CJ, Ivanova S. Mind over immunity. FASEB J 2001;15:1575-1576.


3. Tracey KJ. The inflammatory reflex. Nature 2002;420:853-859.


4. Pavlov VA, Wang H, Czura CJ, Friedman SG. The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway: a missing link in neuroimmunomodulation. Mol Med 2003;9(5-8):125134.


5. Eskandari F, Webster JI, Sternberg EM. Neural immune pathways and their connection to inflammatory diseases. Arthritis Res Ther 2003;5:251-265.


6. Harle P, Bongartz T, Scholmerich J, Muller-Ladner U, Straub RH. Predictive and potentially predictive factors in early arthritis: a multidisciplinary approach. Rheumatology 2005;44:426-433.


7. Czura CJ, Tracey KJ. Autonomic neural regulation of immunity. J Intern Med 2005;257:156-166.


8. Pavlov VA, Tracey KJ. Controlling inflammation: the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. Biochem Soc Trans 2006;34(pt6):1037-40.


9. Vassilopoulos D, Mantzoukis D. Dialogue between the brain and the immune system in inflammatory arthritis. Ann NY Acad Sci 2006;1088:132-138.


10. Thayer JF, Sternberg E. Beyond heart rate variability: vagal regulation of allostatic systems. Ann NY Acad Sci 2006;1088:361-372. 


11. Sloan RP, McCreath H, Tracey KJ, Sidney S, Liu K, Seeman T. RR interval variability is inversely related to inflammatory markers: the CARDIA study. Mol Med 2007;13(3-4):178-184.


12. Ofek K, Krabbe KS, Evron T, Debecco M, Nielsen AR, Brunnsgaad H, Yirmiya R, Soreq H, Pedersen BK. Cholinergic status modulations in human volunteers under acute inflammation. J Mol Med 2007;85(11):1239-51.


13. Anichkov DA, Shostak NA, Ivanov DS. Heart rate variability is related to disease activity and smoking in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Int J Clin Pract 2007;5:777-783.


14. Mravec B. Autonomic dysfunction in autoimmune disease: consequence of cause? Lupus 2007;16:767-768.


15. Holman AJ, Ng E. Heart rate variability predicts anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy response for inflammatory arthritis. Autonomic Neurosci: Basic Clin 2008;143:58-67.


16. Mravec B, Ondicova K, Valaskova Z, Gidron Y, Hulin I. Neurobiological principles in the etiopathogenesis of disease: when diseases have a head. Med Sci Monit 2009;15(1): RA6-16.


17. Straub RH, Kalden JR. Stress of different types increases the proinflammatory load in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther 2009;11:114-115.


18. Van Maanen MA, Vervoordeldonk MJ, Tak PP. The cholinergic ant-inflammatory pathway: towards innovative treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2009;229-232.


19. Thayer JF, Sternberg EM. Neural aspects of immunomodulation: focus on the vagus nerve. Brain Behav Immun 2010;24(8):1223-1228.


20. Waldburger JM, Firestein GS. Regulation of peripheral inflammation by the central nervous system. Curr Rheumatol Rep 2010;12:370-378.


21. Bruchfeld A, Goldstein RS, Chavan S, Patel NB, Rosas-Ballina M, Kohn N, Qureshi AR, Tracey KJ. Whole blood cytokine attenuation by cholinergic agonists ex vivo and relationship to vagus nerve activity in rheumatoid arthritis. J Intern Med 2010;268(1):94-101.


22. Huston JM, Tracey KH. The pulse of inflammation: heart rate variability, the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway and implications for therapy. J Intern Med 2011;269:45-53.


23. Koopman FA, Stoof SP, Straub RH, van Maanen MA, Vervoordeldonk MJ, Tak PP. Restoring the balance of the autonomic nervous system as an innovative approach to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Mol Med 2011;17(9-10):937-948.


24. Dustin M. Signaling at neuro/immune synapses. J Clin Invest 2012;122:1149-1155.


25. Dias da Silva, VJ, Paton JFR. The interplay between the autonomic and immune systems. Exp Physiol 2012:97:1143-45.


26. Yadav RK, Gupta R, Deepak KK. A pilot study on short term heart rate variability & its correlation with disease activity in Indian patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Indian J Med Res 2012;136:593-598.


27. Ebbinghaus M, Gajda M, Boettger MK, Schaible HG, Brauer R. The anti-inflammatory effects of sympathectomy in murine antigen-induced arthritis are associated with reduction of Th1 and Th17 responses. Ann Rheum Dis 2012;71:253-261.


28. Straub RH. Stress in RA: a trigger of proinflammatory pathways? Nat Rev Rheumatol 2014:10(9):516-8.


29. Adlan AM, Lip GYH, Paton JFR, Kitas GD, Fisher JP. Autonomic function and rheumatoid arthritis – a systematic review. Semin Arthritis Rheum 2014; Dec;44(3):283-304.


30. Koopman FA, Tang MW, Vermeij J, Choi IY, Vervoordeldonk MJ, Gerlag DM, Karemaker JM, Tak PP. Autonomic dysfunction precedes development of rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study. EBioMedicine 2016;6:231-237.


31. Koopman FA, Chavan SS, Miljko S, Grazio S, Sokolovic S, Schuurman PR, Mehta AD, Levine YA, Faltys M, Zitnik R, Tracey KJ, Tak PP. Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits cytokine production and attenuates disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis. PNAS 2016;113(29): 8284-9.