Abstracts tagged "autoantibodies"

Abstract Number: 1 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors Predicting Likelihood of Remaining Positive for Rheumatoid Arthritis-Related Autoantibodies Following Autoantibody Screening
Jill M. Norris¹, Elizabeth A. Bemis¹, M. Kristen Demoruelle², Michael Weisman³, Jane H. Buckner⁴, Peter K. Gregersen⁵, Ted R Mikuls⁶, James R. O'Dell⁶, Richard M. Keating⁷, Kevin D. Deane⁸ and V. Michael Holers⁸, ¹Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ²Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ³Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, ⁵Feinstein Insititute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁶Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Scripps Health, La Jolla, CA, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: RA-related autoantibodies are typically elevated prior to the onset of RA. Screening for autoantibody (aAb) positive individuals is a means to assemble a cohort…
Abstract Number: 815 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Novel Anti-BICD2 Autoantibody Potentially Predicts a Favorable Disease Course in SSc
Johannes Schulte-Pelkum¹, Daniel Wirtz¹, Petra Budde¹, Hans-Dieter Zucht¹, Peter Schulz-Knappe¹, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schneider², Suzana Jordan³, Oliver Distler³, Britta Maurer³ and Nicolas Hunzelmann⁴, ¹Protagen AG, Dortmund, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, Univ. Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁴Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Background/Purpose: To evaluate clinical associations of our recently discovered systemic sclerosis-specific auto-antigen BICD2 in clinically well characterized systemic sclerosis (SSc) cohorts from two tertiary referral…
Abstract Number: 1941 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Retrospective Survey of Concomitant Autoimmune Diseases and Autoantibodies in a Cohort of Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (AAV)
Marta Casal Moura^1,2, Sergio Prieto-González², Georgina Espígol-Frigolé², Giuseppe Murgia^2,3, Marco Alba², Jose Hernández-Rodríguez² and Maria C. Cid², ¹Department of Internal Medicine, São João Hospital Center, Porto, Portugal, ²Hospital Clínic. University of Barcelona. IDIBAPS, Vasculitis Research Unit. Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ³University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine Bauchzentrum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) associated vasculitis (AAV) - granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) have heterogenous clinic…
Abstract Number: 2871 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Unaffected Lupus Relatives Are Distinguished from SLE Patients and Unaffected Individuals Not Related to SLE Patients By Lupus-Specific Connective Tissue Disease Questionnaire Scores, Autoantibodies, and Distinct Soluble Mediators
Melissa E. Munroe¹, Kendra A. Young², Jill M. Norris², Teresa Aberle¹, Virginia C. Roberts¹, Joel M. Guthridge³, Diane L. Kamen⁴, Gary S. Gilkeson⁵, Michael Weisman⁶, Mariko Ishimori⁶, Daniel J Wallace⁷, David Karp⁸, Kathy L. Sivils¹, John B. Harley^9,10 and Judith A. James^11,12, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ³Arthritis & Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁶Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Internal Medicine/Division of Rheumatic Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁹US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁰Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ¹¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹²Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Identifying populations at risk of SLE is essential to curtail inflammatory damage and select individuals for prevention trials. Blood relatives (Rel) of lupus patients…
Abstract Number: 2 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)-Related Autoimmunity and Lumbar Bone Mineral Density in a Multi-Ethnic Community-Dwelling Population
Jan M. Hughes-Austin¹, Joachim H. Ix², Michael H. Criqui³, Ronit Katz⁴, Matthew Budoff⁵, Jon T. Giles⁶, Kiang Liu⁷ and Darcy S. Majka⁸, ¹Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁴University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁵Cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ⁶Rheumatology, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, NY, ⁷Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁸Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Previous studies suggest that antibodies to citrullinated protein antigens (ACPA) contribute to decreased hand bone mineral density (BMD) in RA-free individuals. No evidence exists…
Abstract Number: 853 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Associations of Anti-Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2B (anti-eIF2B) Antibodies in a Large Cohort of Patients with Anti-Nuclear Antibody Negative Systemic Sclerosis
John Pauling^1,2, Hui Lu¹, Zoe Betteridge^1,2, Gloria Salazar³, Shervin Assassi³, Maureen D Mayes³ and Neil J. McHugh^1,4, ¹Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, ²Department of Rheumatology, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom, ³Rheumatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Rheumatology, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies can be characterized in up to 95% of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and provide enormous diagnostic and prognostic value in the clinical…
Abstract Number: 2112 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Disease-Activity Associated Autoantibodies to Malondialdehyde-Modified Proteins Can be Isolated from Synovial B Cells in RA
Caroline Grönwall¹, Khaled Amara¹, Uta Hardt¹, Lelise Getu², Jeffrey D. Greenberg³, Robert M Clancy³, Vivianne Malmström⁴ and Gregg J. Silverman³, ¹Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Malondialdehyde (MDA) is a naturally occurring reactive aldehyde that arises during apoptosis or as a consequence of elevated reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation.…
Abstract Number: 2914 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association of Radiographic Findings in Hand X-Ray with Autoantibodies in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Komei Sakata¹, Yuko Kaneko¹, Hidekata Yasuoka², Kunihiro Yamaoka² and Tsutomu Takeuchi³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Keio University School of Medcine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal involvement is a major complication for patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Various radiographic abnormalities are observed, especially in hands, however, the detailed prevalence…
Abstract Number: 163 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Fluorescence Optical Imaging Reveals Distinct Patterns of Hand Joint Inflammation in Seropositive and Seronegative Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Yogan Kisten¹, Erik af Klint², Hamed Rezaei^2,3, Adrian Levitsky⁴, Per T Larsson², Anna Karlsson^2,3, Noémi Györi¹, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven^1,5 and Laurent Arnaud³, ¹Department of Medicine, Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Medicine, Unit for Clinical Therapy Research, Inflammatory Diseases (ClinTRID), The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁵Amsterdam Rheumatology and Immunology Center (ARC), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Detection of abnormal Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) related autoantibodies, Rheumatoid Factor (RF) and Anti- Citrullinated Peptide Antibody (ACPA), along with musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) plays a…
Abstract Number: 915 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Establishment of a Powerful Method to Identify Autoantigens Expressed on the Cell Surface
Tsuyoshi Shirai¹, Hiroshi Fujii¹, Tomoyuki Muto², Yuko Shirota¹, Yoko Fujita³, Tomonori Ishii¹ and Hideo Harigae¹, ¹Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, ²Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, ³Department of Hematolgy and Rheumatolgy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies which recognize integral membrane proteins are generally accepted as pathogenic. However, it had been technically difficult to identify plasma membrane proteins as autoantigens…
Abstract Number: 2114 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exposure to Carbamylated Self- and Non-Self-Proteins Can Lead to a Break-of -Tolerance and the Induction of Autoimmunity
Jacqueline Dekkers¹, Marije K. Verheul², Jeroen Stoop³, Bisheng Liu⁴, Peter A. van Veelen⁵, Martin Hegen⁶, Stephen Rapecki⁷, Tom WJ Huizinga², Leendert A. Trouw⁴ and René Toes⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Immunohematology and Bloodbank, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Inflammation, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, ⁷UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies are an important hallmark of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Approximately 50% of RA patients harbor anti-carbamylated protein (CarP) antibodies. These autoantibodies target proteins that…
Abstract Number: 3020 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Citrullination of Inhibitor of DNA Binding-1 at Specific Locations Leads to Autoantigenicity in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ray A. Ohara¹, Henriette A. Remmer², Phillip L. Campbell³, David A. Fox³ and Jeffrey H. Ruth³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Inhibitor of DNA binding-1 (Id1) is a nuclear transcription factor that regulates cell growth and differentiation via selective binding and sequestering of other transcription…
Abstract Number: 166 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prevalence of Radiographic Thymic Alteration and Its Clinical Association in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
Okinori Murata¹, Katsuya Suzuki¹, Hiroaki Sugiura², Yasushi Kondo¹, Hidekata Yasuoka¹, Kunihiro Yamaoka¹ and Tsutomu Takeuchi¹, ¹Keio University School of Medcine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Keio University School of Medcine, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Consecutive and unbiased 500 patients who had visited at our service and had been evaluated by chest CT scan between January 2013 and December…
Abstract Number: 926 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Concentration of Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor Kappa-B Ligand (RANKL) Predate Onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Linda Johansson¹, Lisbeth Ärlestig¹, Heidi Kokkonen² and Solbritt Rantapaa-Dahlqvist³, ¹Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ²Public Health and Clinical Medicine/ Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ³Umeå University, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/ Rheumatology, Umeå, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Receptor activator of nuclear factor κB ligand (RANKL) an important regulator of bone metabolism has a key role in local bone destruction and osteoporosis…
Abstract Number: 2118 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rituximab Treated Non Responder Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Are Generating a New Autoantibody Repertoire
Zoltan Konthur¹, Melvin Michael Wiemkes², Thomas Häupl³, Gerd R. Burmester⁴ and Karl Skriner⁵, ¹Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Germany, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Rituximab (RTX) has shown clinical efficacy but up to 40 % of RTX treated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are poor responders (Ann Rheum Dis.…

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