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Peter Roberts-Thomson

Peter Roberts-Thomson

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5809
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Overview

Peter Roberts-Thomson is affiliated with the Flinders Medical Centre in Australia, focusing primarily on medical research within the field of medicine.

Their research encompasses several subfields including pathology and forensic medicine, dermatology, epidemiology, molecular biology, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging. These subfields reflect the diverse approaches used in their work related to systemic diseases and clinical diagnostics.

The main topics covered in their scientific output involve systemic sclerosis and related diseases, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, skin diseases and diabetes, dermatologic treatments and research, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, as well as prion diseases and protein misfolding.

Peter Roberts-Thomson has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Pathology
  • Internal Medicine Journal
  • Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
  • Heart Lung and Circulation

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jennifer Walker, Dimitra Beroukas, Karen A Patterson, Paul Hakendorf, and Eliza Pontifex, indicating a network of peers active in related domains.

The following are recent publications authored or co-authored by Peter Roberts-Thomson:

  • Anti-Ro52/TRIM21 is independently associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension and mortality in a cohort of systemic sclerosis patients, 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
  • Clinical utility of nailfold capillaroscopy, 2022, Internal Medicine Journal
  • Scleroderma renal crisis: observations from the South Australian Scleroderma Register, 2020, Internal Medicine Journal
  • Evidence of chromosomal damage in scleroderma, 2021, Pathology
  • Immunoprecipitation assays for the detection of specific extractable nuclear antigen autoantibodies: a role in the modern immunology laboratory?, 2024, Pathology

Best Publications

  • Osteoprotegerin expression in synovial tissue from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies and osteoarthritis and normal controls

    D Haynes;E Barg;T Crotti;C Holding

  • Effects of pulse methylprednisolone on inflammatory mediators in peripheral blood, synovial fluid, and synovial membrane in rheumatoid arthritis

    Peter P. Youssef;David R. Haynes;Sophie Triantafillou;Angela Parker

  • Expression of Jak3, STAT1, STAT4, and STAT6 in inflammatory arthritis: unique Jak3 and STAT4 expression in dendritic cells in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis.

    Jennifer Gauld Walker;Michael John Ahern;Mark Coleman;Helen Marie Weedon

  • New insights into disease pathogenesis in crusted (Norwegian) scabies: the skin immune response in crusted scabies

    Shelley Faye Walton;D Beroukas;P Roberts-Thomson;Bart Currie;Bart Currie

  • Scleroderma in South Australia: epidemiological observations of possible pathogenic significance.

    P. J. Roberts-Thomson;M. Jones;P. Hakendorf;A. A. S. S. Kencana Dharmapatni

  • Diurnal variation of lymphocyte subsets identified by monoclonal antibodies.

    J V Bertouch;P J Roberts-Thomson;J Bradley

  • Effects of pulse methylprednisolone on cell adhesion molecules in the synovial membrane in rheumatoid arthritis. Reduced E-selectin and intercellular adhesion molecule 1 expression.

    Peter P. Youssef;Sophie Triantafillou;Angela Parker;Mark Coleman

  • Neutrophil trafficking into inflamed joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and the effects of methylprednisolone

    Peter P. Youssef;John Cormack;Charles A. Evill;Daryl T. Peter

  • A randomized placebo-controlled trial of arthroscopic lavage versus lavage plus intra-articular corticosteroids in the management of symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee

    Malcolm Smith;M Wetherall;T Darby;Adrian Esterman

  • Interpretation of an Extended Autoantibody Profile in a Well-Characterized Australian Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) Cohort Using Principal Components Analysis.

    Kevin Patterson;Peter J Roberts-Thomson;S Lester;Juann Tan

  • South Australian Scleroderma Register: autoantibodies as predictive biomarkers of phenotype and outcome

    Scott W. Graf;Paul Hakendorf;Sue Lester;Karen Patterson

  • Clinical heterogeneity and prognostic features of South Australian patients with anti‐synthetase autoantibodies

    Manish Dugar;Sally Cox;Vidya Limaye;Peter Blumbergs

  • Incidence and prevalence of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies in South Australia: a 30-year epidemiologic study of histology-proven cases.

    Ju Ann Tan;Peter J. Roberts-Thomson;Peter Blumbergs;Paul Hakendorf

  • Characterisation of a dendritic cell subset in synovial tissue which strongly expresses Jak/STAT transcription factors from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

    J G Walker;M J Ahern;M Coleman;H Weedon

  • Diagnostic utility of anti-Ro52 detection in systemic autoimmunity

    Manish Dugar;Sally Cox;Vidya Limaye;Tom Paul Gordon

  • Decreased nailfold capillary density in limited scleroderma with pulmonary hypertension

    Yang Y. Ong;Tony Nikoloutsopoulos;Colin P. Bond;Malcolm D. Smith

  • Mortality and its predominant causes in a large cohort of patients with biopsy-determined inflammatory myositis

    Vidya Limaye;Vidya Limaye;Paul Hakendorf;Richard Woodman;P Blumbergs

  • Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: diagnostic criteria, classification and epidemiological features.

    Sally Cox;Vidya Limaye;Catherine Hill;Peter Blumbergs

  • Changes in synovial tissue Jak-STAT expression in rheumatoid arthritis in response to successful DMARD treatment

    Jennifer Gauld Walker;Michael John Ahern;Mark Coleman;Helen Marie Weedon

  • Apoptosis in the rheumatoid arthritis synovial membrane: modulation by disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug treatment

    Malcolm Douglas Smith;Helen Marie Weedon;Virginia Papangelis;Jennifer Gauld Walker

  • Idiopathic inflammatory myositis is associated with a high incidence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

    Vidya S. Limaye;Vidya S. Limaye;Sue Lester;Peter Blumbergs;Peter J. Roberts-Thomson

  • Pathogenic mechanisms in the rheumatoid nodule: Comparison of proinflammatory cytokine production and cell adhesion molecule expression in rheumatoid nodules and synovial membranes from the same patient

    R. Wikaningrum;J. Highton;A. Parker;M. Coleman

  • The incidence and associations of malignancy in a large cohort of patients with biopsy-determined idiopathic inflammatory myositis

    Vidya Limaye;Vidya Limaye;Colin Luke;Graeme Tucker;Catherine Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom P. Gordon
Tom P. Gordon Flinders Medical Centre
Peter Brooks
Peter Brooks University of Melbourne
Guy J. Maddern
Guy J. Maddern University of Adelaide
A. D. Smith
A. D. Smith University of Oxford
Emmanuel J. Favaloro
Emmanuel J. Favaloro Westmead Hospital
Michael Horowitz
Michael Horowitz University of Adelaide
Morris Ziff
Morris Ziff The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Allan Wiik
Allan Wiik Statens Serum Institut
Heddy Zola
Heddy Zola Flinders Medical Centre
Bart J. Currie
Bart J. Currie Charles Darwin University

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