Abstracts tagged "Auto-immunity"

Abstract Number: 020 • 2020 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Murine Roseolovirus Induces Autoimmune Disease and Development of Autoantibodies
Tarin Bigley¹ and Wayne Yokoyama ², ¹Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, ²Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri
Background/Purpose: Murine roseolovirus (MRV) is a recently sequenced beta-herpesvirus that is a natural murine pathogen and is genetically highly related to HHV6 and HHV7. The…
Abstract Number: 975 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Functional Impairment of Mitf and the MiT Transcription Factor Family Dysregulates B Cell Activation and Function
Abhimanyu Amarnani¹, Ramile Dilshat ², Nikita Malakhov ³, Brian Ghezelaiagh ⁴, Chongmin Huan ¹, Erna Magnusdottir ², Eirikur Steingrimsson ² and Christopher Roman ¹, ¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, ²University of Iceland Biomedical Center, Reykjavik, Iceland, ³SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Brooklyn, ⁴SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn
Background/Purpose: Autoreactive B cells are central in the development of many autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and are normally eliminated or inactivated…
Abstract Number: 1810 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Rheumatic Toxicities Associated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: An Observational, Retrospective, Pharmacovigilance Study
Céline Anquetil¹, Olivier Benveniste ¹, Javid ‎ Moslehi ², Douglas Johnson ², Bénédicte lebrun-vignes ¹, Olivier Lambotte ³, Joe-Elie Selam ⁴, Jean-Philippe Spano ⁵ and Yves Allenbach ¹, ¹Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, ²Vanderbilt, Nashville, ³APHP Médecine Interne/Immunologie Clinique, Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris, France. Université Paris Sud 11 – INSERM U1184 - CEA, Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases, IDMIT Department, IBFJ, Fontenay-aux-Roses & Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France., Paris, France, ⁴Sorbonne université, Paris, ⁵Sorbonne Université, Paris, French Guiana
Background/Purpose: Monoclonal antibodies targeting co-inhibitory immune checkpoints (PD-1/PDL1 axis or CTLA-4) showed unprecedented clinical activity in several types of cancer by restoring antitumor immune responses.…
Abstract Number: 2618 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Anti-RNPC-3 Antibodies Are Associated with Nuclear Speckled Immunofluorescence Pattern and Enriched in Triple Negative Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Michael Mahler¹, Fabrece Roup ¹, Chelsea Bentow ¹, Marie Hudson ², Murray Baron ³, May Choi ⁴ and Marvin Fritzler ⁵, ¹Inova Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, ²Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ⁴Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, ⁵Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) are present in approximately 90% of sera from systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and play an important diagnostic and prognostic role in…
Abstract Number: L07 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
VIB4920, a Novel, Engineered CD40L Antagonist Decreased Disease Activity and Improved Biomarkers of Immune Activation in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Phase 1b, Multiple-Ascending Dose Proof-of-Concept Study
Marius Albulescu¹, Ulf Müller-Ladner², Rachel Moate³, Kate Middleton³, Liangwei Wang⁴, Jorn Drappa⁴ and Gabor Illei⁵, ¹Clinical Development, MedImmune, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ³MedImmune, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁴Viela Bio, Gaithersburg, USA, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁵Viela Bio, Gaithersburg, USA, Gaithersberg, MD
Background/Purpose: The CD40L/CD40 co-stimulatory pathway is important for T-cell-dependent antibody production and plays a central role in RA and other autoimmune diseases. VIB4920 (formerly MEDI4920)…
Abstract Number: 5 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Short Chain Fatty Acid Acetate Induces Regulatory B Cells in Mice and Humans, Which Can Protect Against Arthritis
Claire I. Daien^1,2,3, Julie Mielle^1,4, Rachel Audo^1,2,5, Lake-Ee Quek¹, James Krycer¹, Gauthier Rathat⁶, Gabriela Pinget¹, Sumaiya Hoque⁷, Charles Mackay⁸, Jian Tan⁹ and Laurence Macia¹, ¹Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ²IGMM, CNRS UMR5535, Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ³Department of rheumatology, Lapeyronie Hospital and Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁴IGMM CNRS UMR5535, Montpellier, France, ⁵Rheumatology, Lapeyronie Hospital and Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁶Arnaud-de-Villeneuve Hospital, Montpellier, France, ⁷Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, France, ⁸Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁹Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Montpellier, Australia
Background/Purpose: Autoimmunity and more broadly non-communicable diseases develop with the imbalance between anti- and pro-inflammatory immune cell subsets, leading to an uncontrolled and damaging inflammation.…
Abstract Number: 142 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Peripheral CD4+CD25+Foxp3+T Regulatory Cells Absolutely Reduce in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Xiao-Qing Liu¹, Na-Lin Lai², Yanan Duan¹, Junwei Chen¹, Xiao-Feng Li³ and Chong Gao⁴, ¹The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ²Rheumatology, The Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ³Rheumatology, the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, ⁴Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Regulatory T (Treg) cells, with the capacity to suppress immune responses, and effector T (Teff) cells, to promote inflammation, have been intensively studied in…
Abstract Number: 1382 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluating Results of an Interferon-γ Release Assay in Patients with Autoimmune Skin Disease on Hydroxychloroquine
Rebecca Gaffney¹ and Victoria P. Werth², ¹Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: QuantiFERON-TB Gold is commercial interferon-γ release assay used to screen patients for tuberculosis before starting or while on immunosuppressive therapies. Clinical studies on efficacy…
Abstract Number: 1968 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
eQTL Analysis of More Than 1000 Human Blood Samples Reveals Shared and Unique Signals across Seven Systemic Autoimmune Diseases : The Precisesads Project
Martin Kerick¹, David Gonzalez Serna¹, Elena Carnero-Montoro², Sepideh Babaei³, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera¹, Maria Teruel², Guillermo Barturen², Zuzanna Makowska³, Anne Buttgereit⁴, Sikander Hayat⁴, Jorge Kageyama⁴, Manuel Martínez-Bueno², PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium⁵, Ralf Lesche³, Javier Martin⁶ and Marta Alarcón-Riquelme², ¹Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain, ²Medical Genomics, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ³Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Spain, ⁶Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina ‘López-Neyra’, CSIC, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain., Granada, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic autoimmune diseases (SADs) are chronic inflammatory conditions with autoimmune aetiology and many common clinical features, hampering diagnosis and adequate treatment decisions. Finding new…
Abstract Number: 2093 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Glucocorticoid-Induced Leucine Zipper (GILZ) Deficiency Worsens Autoimmunity in the Lyn-Deficient Murine Model of Lupus By Disinhibiting the Type I Interferon (IFN) Pathway
Champa Nataraja¹, Eric Morand¹, Jacinta Lee¹, Taylah Bennett¹, Jacqueline Flynn¹, James Harris¹ and Sarah Jones², ¹Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ²School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-system autoimmune disease associated with B cell hyperactivity driven by dysregulated type I IFN. Lyn-deficient mice develop lupus-like…
Abstract Number: 2932 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Biomarkers Identified Using Multi-Omic and Artificial Intelligence Analysis through Interrogative Biology
Eric Grund¹, Lixia Zhang¹, Leonardo Rodrigues¹, Viatcheslav Akmaev¹, Rangaprasad Sarangarajan¹, Michael Kiebish¹, Niven Narain¹ and Gary S. Gilkeson², ¹BERG, LLC, Framingham, MA, ²Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Background/Purpose: Biomarkers for use in developing treatments and diagnostics for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) are a large unmet need. The wide differential in patient progression…
Abstract Number: 3 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interferon-Alpha Disrupts DNA-Specific B Cell Tolerance in 3H9 Mice
Dario Ferri¹, Yuriy Baglaenko², Ariana Karanxha¹, Kieran Manion¹, Carolina Grajales¹ and Joan E. Wither¹, ¹Genetics and Development, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Department of Biomedical Informatics, Brigham Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: A central mediator of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) pathogenesis is interferon-alpha (IFNα), which is elevated in the serum of SLE patients. IFNα has been…
Abstract Number: 295 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Ex Vivo Induced Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Are Intrinsically Different in Anca-Associated Vasculitis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Laura van Dam¹, Tineke Kraaij¹, Sylvia Kamerling¹, Hans U. Scherer², Charles Pusey³, Ton Rabelink¹, Cees van Kooten¹ and Onno Teng¹, ¹Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Background/Purpose: Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are immunogenic, extracellular DNA structures that harness important autoantigens to be recognized by the adaptive immune system. NETs are…
Abstract Number: 492 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Is Leukotoxin_A Produced By Aggregatibacter Actynomycetemcomitans Important for Initiating Autoimmune Responses Underlying Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Mikhail Volkov¹, Jacqueline Dekkers¹, Bruno G. Loos², Sergio Bizzarro², Tom W.J. Huizinga³, Helle A. Praetorius⁴, Rene E.M. Toes⁵ and Diane van der Woude¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Periodontology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁵Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In a recent publication in Science Translational Medicine, Konig et al. (2016) describe a potential explanation for the link between periodontal infection and RA.…
Abstract Number: 562 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-Muscarinic Receptor 3 Antibodies – a Cross Reactive Result of Ro60 Immunization
Syed M.S. Quadri¹, Biji T Kurien², Kristi A. Koelsch³ and R. Hal Scofield⁴, ¹Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Okalahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease characterized by impaired function of salivary and lacrimal glands leading to dry mouth and dry…

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