C. Ribbens

The epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis and the commencement of anti-TNF therapy in daily rheumatology practice (2007)

VANDER CRUYSSEN, BERT, RIBBENS, C, BOONEN, A, Mielants, Herman, De Vlam, Kurt, LENAERTS, J, ...

Which patients with ankylosing spondylitis start anti-TNF-alpha therapy in daily clinical practice? (2006)

Vander Cruyssen, Bert, Mielants, Herman, BOONEN, A, LENAERTS, J, LESAFFRE, E, De Vlam, Kurt, ...

Belgian patients with familial and sporadic ankylosing spondylitis differ in disease phenotype (2006)

De Vlam, Kurt, VASTESAEGER, N, BRASSEUR, JP, BOONEN, A, LENAERTS, J, LESAFFRE, E, ...

Multifaceted web services: An approach to secure and scalable grid scheduling (2002)

S. Prabhakar, C. Ribbens, P. Bora

A multifaceted or multi-interface web service is a web service that offers interfaces to clients and to other peer web services. The multifaceted web service uses a generic parameter-based approach...

Adverse effect of abdominal operations on production of interferon-gamma (1995)

Ribbens, C, Médot, M, De Groote, D, Vrindts, Y, Lopez, M, ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of abdominal operations on the production of cytokines as one of the mechanisms of postoperative immunosuppression. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: University...

Increased matrix metalloproteinase-3 serum levels in rheumatic diseases: relationship with synovitis and steroid treatment

Ribbens, C, Martin, Y, Franchimont, N, Kaiser, M, Jaspar, J, Damas, P, ...

Objective: To determine matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3) serum levels in patients with rheumatic diseases and to study the relation between MMP-3 and C reactive protein (CRP) levels.

Increased synovial fluid levels of soluble CD23 are associated with an erosive status in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Ribbens, C, Bonnet, V, Kaiser, M J, Andre, B, Kaye, O, Franchimont, N, ...

Synovial fluid (SF) levels of soluble CD23 (sCD23) were determined in 96 patients presenting with an inflammatory knee effusion (73 with RA and 23 with reactive arthritis (ReA) serving as a control...

Increased production of matrix metalloproteinase-3 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 by inflamed mucosa in inflammatory bowel disease

Louis, E, Ribbens, C, Godon, A, Franchimont, D, De Groote, D, Hardy, N, ...

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are characterized by a sustained inflammatory cascade that gives rise to the release of mediators capable of degrading and modifying bowel wall structure. Our aims...

CD40–CD40 ligand (CD154) engagement is required but may not be sufficient for human T helper 1 cell induction of interleukin-2- or interleukin-15-driven, contact-dependent, interleukin-1β production by monocytes

Ribbens, C, Dayer, J-M, Chizzolini, C

To investigate whether antigen-independent, interleukin-2 (IL-2) or IL-15 activation of polarized T helper (Th) cells would result in contact-dependent activation of monocytes, living Th1 and Th2...