The results showed that treatment with Adalimumab induced a statistically significant reduction in the clinical scores DAS28 and HAQ, as has been shown by many clinical studies . Even though no statistically significant effect of the treatment was found on the number of osteoclast precursors, the number of osteoclasts generated in vitro or the surface of bone resorption in vitro, there was a clear trend towards a decrease in the last two parameters. We believe this lack of statistical significance is due to a type II error, a consequence of the much higher variance of the primary parameter (number of in vitro-generated osteoclasts) in the patient cohort than we could foresee from the initial data from normal donors. Moreover, there was a statistically significant correlation (p=0.416, linear regression) between the difference in the number of osteoclasts in time zero and six months and the difference in the HAQ score, which not only supports the hypothesis that the treatment with Adalimumab may be associated with a reduction in the number of osteoclasts but also suggests that this reduction may be associated with a better response to the treatment. The general objective of the proposed prolongation of the BROCA study is to verify these two working hypothesis.