[Prevalence of macrovascular arterial involvement of the 4 limbs in systemic sclerosis: About a case series of 14 patients].

Introduction: Trophic disorders of the extremities are a common complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc), mainly related to microvascular damage. However, SSc seems to be a risk factor for premature athero-thrombotic disease that can affect the peripheral arteries, participate in the occurrence of trophic disorders and promote the occurrence of infectious complications. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of arterial disease of the limbs in SSc patients.

Treatment of giant-cell arteritis, a literature review.

Giant-cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis in people aged more than 50 years. Despite the frequency of this disease, there is currently no international consensus on its therapeutic modalities. The aim of this study was to conduct a review on an international literature about the treatment of GCA, whatever the clinical pattern might be.

Erratum to "characterization and diagnostic potential of hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid expressed in E. coli and P. pastoris".

The hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) was expressed in Escherichia coli and in Pichia pastoris. A hexa-histidine tag was introduced at the C terminus of the E. coli expressed protein allowing its purification by Ni2+-chelate affinity chromatography.