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Abstract Number: 0099 • ACR Convergence 2025
Time course and impact of IL17A on hepatic inflammation and fibrosis in adjuvant induced arthritis
Arthur Dollinger¹, Frédéric Meyer¹, Hélène Martin², Céline Delougeot³, Delphine Weil-Verhoeven¹ and Frank Verhoeven⁴, ¹CHU Besancon, Besancon, France, ²Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besancon, France, ³université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besancon, ⁴CHU de Besançon, Besançon, Franche-Comte, France
Background/Purpose: The management of spondyloarthritis. (SpA) includes controlling disease activity as well as comorbidities such as metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome can be associated with metabolic…
Abstract Number: 0101 • ACR Convergence 2025
Enrichment of putative bacteria-reactive gut-derived IL-17+ tissue resident memory helper T cells in arthritic ankles in the SKG mouse model of spondyloarthritis
Benjamin Cai¹, Megan Soon², Zewen Kelvin Tuong², Mark Morrison², Anne-Sophie Bergot³ and Ranjeny Thomas⁴, ¹Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ²Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ³Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia, ⁴Frazer Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Background/Purpose: In spondyloarthropathy (SpA), arthritis is often associated with gut inflammation. The strong genetic association with HLA-B27 implicates involvement of T cells, but how gut…
Abstract Number: 0104 • ACR Convergence 2025
Dissecting the Genetic and Functional Association of CARD9 with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Félicie Costantino¹, Eva Frison², Andrew Brown³, Carla Cohen³, Manon Jacoutot⁴, Gabriele Migliorini³, roula Said-Nahal⁵, Giuseppe Scozzafava³, Paul Bowness⁶, Paul Wordsworth⁶, Henri-Jean Garchon², Simon Glatigny⁴, Maxime Breban⁷ and Julian Knight⁶, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Ambroise Paré Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France and Infection & Inflammation, UMR ¹¹⁷³, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France, ²Infection & Inflammation, UMR ¹¹⁷³, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Montigny le Bretonneux, France, ³NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Infection & Inflammation, UMR ¹¹⁷³, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Ambroise Paré Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France and Infection & Inflammation, UMR ¹¹⁷³, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, ⁶NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, NDORMS, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁷CHU Ambroise-Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Background/Purpose: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease with strong genetic predisposition, driven by HLA-B27 and over 100 additional loci identified by genome-wide…
Abstract Number: 0123 • ACR Convergence 2025
Prognosis of Cardiac Involvement in Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Juliette Guiraud Chaumeil¹, david saadoun², Laurent Alric¹, Laurent Sailler¹, Sébastien De Almeida Chaves¹, Olivier Lairez¹, Patrice CACOUB³ and Grégory Pugnet⁴, ¹CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France, ²APHP, neuilly sur seine, France, ³Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ⁴CHU Toulouse Rangueil Service de Medecine Interne et Immunologie Clinique, Toulouse, France
Background/Purpose: Cardiac involvement in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) includes valvular, coronary, and myocardial manifestations. Valvular involvement is the most frequent, affecting approximately 30% of patients, while…
Abstract Number: 0133 • ACR Convergence 2025
Differences in cardiovascular risk factor control between primary and systemic lupus erythematosus-related antiphospholipid syndrome in a multiethnic cohort of 1003 patients with antiphospholipid syndrome: the SUrvey of cardiovascular disease Risk Factors (SURF) in SLE and APS project
Eleana Bolla¹, Anne Grete Semb², Michelle Petri³, Petros Sfikakis⁴, Bahar Artim Esen⁵, Gabriela Hernandez-Molina⁶, Eric Hachulla⁷, Haner Direskeneli⁸, George Karpouzas⁹, Marta Mosca¹⁰, Mohit Goyal¹¹, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau¹², Angela Tincani¹³, Ayten Yazici¹⁴, Karoline Lerang¹⁵, Anne Troldborg¹⁶, Sofia Ajeganova¹⁷, Tatiana Popkova¹⁸, Elisabet Svenungsson¹⁹, Nikos Pantazis²⁰ and Maria Tektonidou²¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece, ²Preventive Cardio-Rheuma clinic, Dept Rheum, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ⁴NKUA - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Athens, Greece, ⁵Istanbul University, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico, ⁷University of Lille, LILLE, France, ⁸Marmara University, ISTANBUL, Turkey, ⁹Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ¹⁰University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ¹¹CARE Pain & Arthritis Centre, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, ¹²Inserm DR Paris ⁵, Paris, France, ¹³ASST Spedali Civili-University of Brescia, Gussago, Brescia, Italy, ¹⁴Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey, ¹⁵Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁶Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ¹⁷Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁸V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ²⁰Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, ²¹National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is driven by antiphospholipid antibody-mediated immunothrombotic mechanisms and traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs). Although the EULAR recommendations…
Abstract Number: 0126 • ACR Convergence 2025
Performance of the 2023 and 2006 APS Classification Criteria in Pediatric Patients Diagnosed with APS: A Multisite Cohort Study
Jacqueline Madison¹, Elizabeth Sloan², Cristina Saez³, Olivia Kwan⁴, Kevin Lewis¹, Jonathan Marilao⁵, Blake Baay⁶, Rasha Elrefai⁴, Marissa Dale⁷, Deborah McCurdy⁸, Jheel Bhatt⁹, Sasidhar Goteti¹⁰, Ekemini Ogbu¹¹, Jason S. Knight¹ and Yu (Ray) Zuo¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center, and Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX, ³Children's Hospital Colorado, Glendale, CO, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁵University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ⁶Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX, ⁷Hospital for Special Surgery/NYP Cornell, New York, NY, ⁸UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Advent Health Orlando, Orlando, FL, ¹⁰University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a thrombo-inflammatory disorder that causes significant morbidity and mortality, even in children. The 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria, which use weighted…
Abstract Number: 0129 • ACR Convergence 2025
Analysis of Antiphosphatidylserine/prothrombin Antibodies as a Predictor of Lupus Anticoagulant in the Pediatric Population
Jonathan Marilao¹, Sean Yates² and Elizabeth Sloan³, ¹University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, ³UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center, and Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is a systemic thromboinflammatory autoimmune disease characterized by thrombotic or obstetric events occurring in individuals with persistently positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL).…
Abstract Number: 0019 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single cell characterization of the circulating immune system in Sjögren’s Syndrome
Alejandro Gómez Gómez¹, Héctor Corominas², Rosario Garcia Vicuña³, Mercedes Freire González⁴, Sheila Melchor-Díaz⁵, Paloma Vela Casasempere⁶, Paula Estrada-Alarcón⁷, Jose Luis Tandaipan⁸, Monica Fernandez Castro⁹, Sara Maria Rojas Herrera¹⁰, Marina Rodríguez López¹¹, Beatriz Paredes-Romero¹², Santiago Muñoz¹³, Marta López¹⁴, Ignacio Braña¹⁵, Gema Bonilla¹⁶, Raúl Menor Almagro¹⁷, Sara Manrique-Arija¹⁸, Mª Angeles Blazquez Cañamero¹⁹, Lilian López-Núñez²⁰, Carles Galisteo Veiga²¹, Juan José Alegre-Sancho²², Jose Rosas Gómez de Salazar²³, Jose Javier Pérez Venegas²⁴, Judit Font-Urgelles²⁵, José Andrés Román Ivorra²⁶, José Miguel Sequí-Sabater²⁷, Rafaela Ortega-Castro²⁸, Clara Moriano²⁹, Guadalupe Manzano-Canabal³⁰, Cilia Peralta-Ginés³¹, Javier Narváez³², Rafael Cáliz-Cáliz³³, Javier Martínez-Ferrin³⁴, Lara Sánchez Bilbao³⁵, Belén Serrano-Benavente³⁶, Natalia Boix- Martí³⁷, Ares Selles-Rius³⁸, Maribel Pérez³⁹, Juan Cañete⁴⁰, Núria Palau Balaña³⁸, Damiana Alvarez Errico³⁹, Yolanda Guillén⁴¹, Juan Ángel Patiño Galindo⁴¹, Antonio Julià¹, Sara Marsal Barril⁴² and Jose Luis Andreu⁴³, ¹Vall d'Hebron Hospital Research Institute, Rheumatology Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Rheumatology, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁴⁴ Hospital Universitario A Coruña, Rheumatology, A Coruña, La coruna, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitario ¹² de Octubre, Rheumatology, Madrid, Madrid, ⁶Hospital General Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ⁷Hospital de San Juan Despí Moisès Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ⁸Rheumatology. Hospital Universitario de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁹PUERTA DE HIERRO HOSPITAL, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital de Mérida, Rheumatology, Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain, ¹¹Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Rheumatology, Santiago de Compostela., Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ¹²Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía;Universidad Europea de Madrid. Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports. Department of Medicine; FIIB HUIS-HUHEN, San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía;Universidad Europea de Madrid. Faculty of Medicine, Health and Sports. Department of Medicine; FIIB HUIS-HUHEN, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Complex Hospitalari Universitari Moisés Broggi, Barcelona, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital Universitario La Paz, Rheumatology, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Jerez, Spain, Puerto De Santa María, Spain, ¹⁸Hospital Regional Universitario Málaga, Malaga, Spain, ¹⁹Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Son Llatzer, Rheumatology, Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ²¹Hospital Parc Taulí, Rheumatology, Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain, ²²Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain, ²³Hospital Marina Baixa, PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, ²⁴Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain, Sevilla, Spain, ²⁵Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ²⁶Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Universitario La Fe (Valencia), Valencia, Spain, ²⁸Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ²⁹Hospital León, LEON, Castilla y Leon, Spain, ³⁰Hospital Virgen de la Concha (Zamora), Zamora, Spain, ³¹Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, ³²Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ³³Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Rheumatology, Granada, Granada, Spain, ³⁴Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Rheumatology, Murcia, Murcia, Spain, ³⁵Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Immunopathology Group, Santander, Spain, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ³⁶Hospital Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain, ³⁷Hospital Univetsitari Vall d'Hebron, Rheumatology Department, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁸Rheumatology Research Group, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ³⁹IMIDomics, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴⁰Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴¹IMIDomics, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴²Vall Hebron Hospital Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴³Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain
Background/Purpose: Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by the infiltration of circulating immune cells into the salivary and lacrimal glands. The properties…
Abstract Number: 0046 • ACR Convergence 2025
Association of Genetic Variation in XIST and FTX with Susceptibility to Female-Biased Systemic Autoimmune Disease
Thomas Riley¹, Dana DiRenzo¹, Ellen Romich², Michael Levin³, Scott Damrauer³, Michael George¹, Montserrat Anguera¹, Joshua Baker¹ and Nikhil Jiwrajka¹, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Media, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania / Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VAMC, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: The mechanisms underlying female sex bias in autoimmune diseases remain unclear. Recent work has suggested that impaired maintenance of X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) in female…
Abstract Number: 0032 • ACR Convergence 2025
Protein Language Model-Guided Homology Identifies Microbial Enzymes Linked to Fibrosis-Prone IgG4-RD and Crohn’s Disease
Kumar Thurimella¹, Ahmed Mohamed², Chenhao Li³, Tommi Vatanen⁴, Daniel Graham³, Roisin Owens⁵, Sabina Leanti La Rosa⁶, Damian Plichta³, Sergio Bacallado⁵ and Ramnik Xavier⁷, ¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Broad Institute, Boston, ³Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ⁴University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ⁵University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁶NMBU, As, Norway, ⁷Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Uncharacterized microbial enzymes in metagenomics are difficult to annotate, especially in fibrosis-prone conditions like IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) and Crohn’s disease (CD), where microbial carbohydrate…
Abstract Number: 0002 • ACR Convergence 2025
KITE-363: An Autologous Anti-CD19/CD20 CAR-T Product for the Treatment of Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Brian Kim, Christine Lowe, Francisco Flores, Jeremy Margaitis, Alessandro Calo, Stacey Valny, Anna Konecny, Eva Jaghatspanyan, Sean Yoder, Kenneth Ertel, Simone Filosto, Jodi Murakami and David Barrett, Kite, a Gilead Company, Santa Monica, CA
Background/Purpose: B-cell dysregulation is a key factor in the development and progression of autoimmune diseases, and B-cell inhibition has been a cornerstone of treatment for…
Abstract Number: 0020 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bulk RNA-sequencing of Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis Skin Biopsies Show Upregulation of Leukocyte Migration Genes
Anne Carlton, Lam Tsoi, Joseph Kirma, Jennifer Fox, Paul Harms and Johann Gudjonsson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Vasculitis encompasses multiple conditions united by end-organ damage due to an immune-mediated reaction against the vasculature. Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV) is a subtype of cutaneous…
Abstract Number: 2274 • ACR Convergence 2025
Importance Of Fc Region On Therapeutic Survival In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Anti-TNF Therapy
ELENA GRAU GARCIA¹, Iago Alcántara Álvarez², Jose Ivorra Cortes³, Pablo Muñoz Martinez⁴, Laura Mas Sanchez⁵, Alba Maria Torrat Noves⁶, Daniel Ramos Castro⁷, Belen Villanueva Manes⁸, Miguel Simeo Vinaixa⁴, Andres Perez Hurtado⁹ and José Andrés Román Ivorra¹⁰, ¹HUP La Fe, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ²Hospital Universitari i Politénic La Fe, València, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Department. HUP La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁵Hospital Universitari i Politecnic La Fe, València, Spain, ⁶Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁷Hospital Universitari i Politecnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁸Hospital La Fe, València, Spain, ⁹Hospital Universitario y Politècnico La Fe, València, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ¹⁰Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Background/Purpose: In patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it has been studied a relation between high rheumatoid factor (RF) and a favorable response to anti-TNF…
Abstract Number: 0028 • ACR Convergence 2025
Computational and Laboratory Identification of Risk-Driving Alleles on Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)-Associated Haplotypes
Adam He¹, Hannah Ainsworth², Kaiyu Jiang³, Ekaterina Khtovatkova², Yanmin Chen³, Carl Langefeld⁴, Charles G Danko¹ and James N. Jarvis⁵, ¹Cornell University Baker School of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY, ²Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, ³University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, ⁴Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, ⁵University of Washington Center for Indigenous Health, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Multiple genomic regions are known to confer risk for JIA. However, identifying the SNPs that exert the biological effects that confer risk, and therefore…
Abstract Number: 0094 • ACR Convergence 2025
Distinct immune-molecular signatures modulated ex vivo by JAK and TNF predict Rheumatoid Arthritis therapy outcomes in patients naïve to biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs
Sagrario Corrales¹, Laura muñoz-Barrera¹, Rafaela Ortega-Castro², Elena Moreno-Caño³, Jerusalén Calvo⁴, Concepción Aranda-Valera⁴, Lourdes Ladehesa⁵, Pilar Font⁶, Ismael Sanchez-Pareja¹, M Carmen Abalos-Aguilera⁷, Desiree Ruiz-Vilchez⁸, Christian Merlo⁹, MARIA ANGELES AGUIRRE ZAMORANO¹, Tomás Cerdó¹, Nuria Barbarroja¹⁰, Marta Alarcon-Riquelme¹¹, Alejandro Escudero Contreras⁴, Carlos Pérez Sánchez¹² and Chary López pedrera¹³, ¹Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Córdoba, Spain, ²Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ³IMIBIC-Reina Sofia Hospital-University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Córdoba, Spain, ⁴IMIBIC / Reina Sofia Hospital / University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain, ⁵IMIBIC-Reina Sofia Hospital-University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, SpainBiomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Córdoba, Spain, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Reina Sofía University Hospital / Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (IMIBIC) / Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Córdoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁹Rheumatology Service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/University of Cordoba/ Reina Sofia University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ¹⁰Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain/CobiomicBioscience S.l, Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ¹¹Fundación Progreso y Salud, Andalusian Government, Granada, Spain, ¹²Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain/ CobiomicBioscience S.l, Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ¹³Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain
Background/Purpose: Despite advances in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment, 20–40% of patients do not respond to biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs (b/tsDMARDs). Understanding each drug’s molecular…

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