PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - ROBERT A. COLBERT AU - ATUL A. DEODHAR AU - DAVID FOX AU - ELLEN M. GRAVALLESE AU - MUHAMMAD ASIM KHAN AU - DENNIS McGONAGLE AU - JOHN D. REVEILLE AU - GEORG SCHETT AU - MICHAEL WEISMAN AU - DANIEL O. CLEGG TI - Entheses and Bones in Spondyloarthritis: 2008 Annual Research and Education Meeting of the Spondyloarthritis Research and Therapy Network (SPARTAN) AID - 10.3899/jrheum.090122 DP - 2009 Jul 01 TA - The Journal of Rheumatology PG - 1527--1531 VI - 36 IP - 7 4099 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/7/1527.short 4100 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/7/1527.full SO - J Rheumatol2009 Jul 01; 36 AB - The Spondyloarthritis Research and Therapy Network (SPARTAN), founded in 2003 to promote research, education, and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and related forms of spondyloarthritis (SpA), held its 6th Annual Research and Education Meeting in July 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The overall theme of the meeting was entheses and bones in SpA, which included presentations on the anatomy and physiology of the synovial-entheseal complex; bone formation and destruction, and the effect of inflammation on bone; the Th17 axis, HLA-B27, IL23R, and ARTS1; and breakout sessions on epidemiology and registries.