Abstracts tagged "adhesion molecules and monocytes"

Abstract Number: 2744 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Altered Expression of CD52 Facilitates Adhesion of Circulating CD14+ Monocytes in Systemic Sclerosis
Michal Rudnik¹, Mara Stellato ¹, Filip Rolski ², Przemyslaw Blyszczuk ³, Karin Klingel ⁴, Joerg Henes ⁵, Carol Feghali-Bostwick ⁶, Oliver Distler ⁷ and Gabriela Kania ³, ¹Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Department of Clinical Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland, ³Centre of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Institute for Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁵University Hospital Tuebingen, Department of Internal Medicine II (Oncology, Haematology, Immunology and Rheumatology), Tuebingen, Germany, ⁶Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlston, SC, ⁷Dept. of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Infiltration of inflammatory cells, including monocytes, into the organs is a major process leading to fibrosis, remodelling and organ dysfunction in systemic sclerosis (SSc).…