In the seven patients with active arthritis at inclusion, the analyses of 92 inflammatory proteins with the described multiplex system showed a significant decrease in nine chemokines, TNF-alpha, TRAIL, MCP-1, CX3CL1, ADA, IL10RA, IL10RB, SCF, and uPA, presented in Table 3, but none of them remained significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons. Here, KITLG is linked to arthritic joint disease.