Abstracts tagged "autoimmune diseases"

Abstract Number: 152 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Characteristics of Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in a US Healthcare Claims Database
TA Simon¹, A Baheti², N Ray², S Kelly¹ and Z Guo¹, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ²Mu Sigma, Bangalore, India
Background/Purpose: Abatacept, the first selective co-stimulation modulator approved and used for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), has a mechanism of action that is…
Abstract Number: 147 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Profiling of Primary Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patient Cells: Better Understanding of Disease Pathogenesis
Lucas Picavet¹, Janneke Peeters², Sandra Coenen³, Arjan Boltjes⁴, Femke van Wijk⁵, Paul Coffer², Bas Vastert⁶ and Jorg van Loosdregt⁷, ¹Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²Center for Molecular Medicine and Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁴Laboratory of Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁵Laboratory for Translational Immunity, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁶Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁷Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: For many autoimmune diseases, including Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), the molecular mechanisms remain elusive. JIA can be used as a model to study autoimmune…
Abstract Number: 12L • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Efficacy and Safety of Atacicept in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results of a 24-Week Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Phase IIb Study
Joan T. Merrill¹, Daniel J. Wallace², Stephen Wax³, Amy Kao⁴, Patricia Fraser⁴, Wai Chin⁴ and David A. Isenberg⁵, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³EMD Serono, BIllerica, MA, ⁴EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, ⁵University College Hospital, London, London, United Kingdom

Background/Purpose: Atacicept targets B-cell stimulating factors BLyS and APRIL. In the APRIL-SLE trial, atacicept 150 mg was associated with reduced SLE flares in post-hoc analyses.1Methods:…
Abstract Number: 2934 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Assessment of the Monoclonal Anitbody, PRX003, a Potential Novel Treatment for Th17-Mediated Inflammatory Disease
Gene G. Kinney¹, Kenneth Flanagan¹, Michael Skov¹, Ronald Goldblum², Sue Griffith³, Robin M. Barbour¹, Wagner Zago¹, Ted Yednock¹, Martin Koller¹ and Dan Ness¹, ¹Prothena Biosciences Inc, South San Francisco, CA, ²Carlsbad Pharmaceutical Consulting, Inc., Carlsbad, CA, ³ClinPharma Services, Inc, San Diego, CA
Background/Purpose: Melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM; CD146) is expressed on the surface of Th17 cells, which have the capacity to produce IL-17 and a multitude…
Abstract Number: 764 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Atacicept: Integrated Safety Profile from Phase II Randomized Placebo-Controlled Studies in Autoimmune Diseases
Patricia Fraser, Wai Chin and Amy Kao, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA
Background/Purpose: Atacicept, a recombinant fusion protein, targets both BLyS (B lymphocyte stimulator) and APRIL (a proliferation-inducing ligand), B cell activating factors involved in the pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1008 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Advantageous Effect of an Endogenous Retroviral Envelope Protein in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Ex Vivo and In Vivo Anti-Inflammatory Potential
Anne Troldborg^1,2, Magdalena Janina Laska³, Ellen-Margrethe Hauge^4,5, Shervin Bahrami⁶ and Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen^7,8, ¹clinical medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ³Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴Dept. of Anatomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁵Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁶Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁷Clinical medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are remnants of retroviral infections in the human germline. Most, but not all, HERV genes have become inactive by accumulation…
Abstract Number: 1029 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Functional Genetics of PTPN2 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Haploinsufficiency of PTPN2 Promotes Severity of Th17-Cell Mediated Autoimmune Arthritis
Mattias N. D. Svensson^1,2, Karen M. Doody¹, Cristiano Sacchetti^1,2, Dennis J. Wu¹, Gisen Kim³, Annelie Hellvard⁴, Brith Bergum⁴, Piotr Mydel⁴, Mitchell Kronenberg³, Michel L. Tremblay⁵ and Nunzio Bottini^1,2, ¹Cellular Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, ²Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Clinical Science, Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Bergen, Norway, ⁵Goodman Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Genome-wide association studies have linked polymorphisms in the PTPN2 locus to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). PTPN2 encodes the tyrosine phosphatase TC-PTP, an important regulator of…
Abstract Number: 1179 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Impact of Autoimmune Disease in the Management and Prognosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome
Nuria Lozano-Rivas¹, Carlos Marras Fernandez-Cid², Francisco Jose Pastor Perez³, Pedro Flores-Blanco⁴, Miriam Gomez-Molina⁴, Alberto Bermudez⁵, Luis Francisco Linares², Javier Martinez Ferrin², Francisco Andrés Martinez-Angosto¹, Pablo Mesa del Castillo² and Sergio Manzano-Fernandez⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, murcia, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain, ³Cardiology, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain, ⁴Cardiology, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, murcia, Spain, ⁵Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Molina de Segura (Mu, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with autoimmune diseases (AID) have a high burden of cardiovascular disease leading to premature morbidity and mortality. But it is unclear if it…
Abstract Number: 1244 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Establishing a Case Report Form (CRF) for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Studies
Lorenzo Beretta¹, Laurence Laigle², Ricard Cervera³, Alessandro Santaniello¹, Julien Hervouet⁴, Chris Chamberlain⁵, Jacqueline Marovac⁵, Maria Juárez⁶, Javier Martín⁷, Sambasiva Rao⁸, Jacques-Olivier Pers⁹, Johan Frostegård¹⁰, Jerome Wojcik¹¹, Bernard R. Lauwerys¹² and Marta E. Alarcon Riquelme^13,14, ¹Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milan, Italy, ²Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier, SURESNES CEDEX, France, ³Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Institut Clínic de Medicina i Dermatologia, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier, Suresnes cedex, France, ⁵UCB Pharma, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁶UCB, Slough, United Kingdom, ⁷Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, IPBLN-CSIC, PTS-Granada, Granada, Spain, ⁸Sanofi Genzyme, Boston, MA, ⁹INSERM ERI29, EA2216, Université de Brest, Labex IGO, CHRU Morvan, Brest, France, ¹⁰Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹¹QuartzBIO, SA, Geneva, Switzerland, ¹²Pôle de pathologies rhumatismales inflammatoires et systémiques, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, ¹³Center for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer-University of Granada-Junta de Andalucia, Granada, Spain and Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁴Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Systemic autoimmune diseases (SADs) are heterogeneous conditions with peculiar characteristics that share several clinical features. It is suspected that SADs share similar molecular abnormalities,…
Abstract Number: 1313 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatologic Diseases in HIV-Infected Patients in the Post-Antiretroviral Therapy Era: The County Experience
Muhsen Al-ani¹, Yasir Abdulqader¹, Robert Myers¹, Napatkamon Ayutyanont‎², Bikash Bhattarai² and Konstantinos Parperis³, ¹Internal Medicine, Maricopa Integrated Health System and University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, phoenix, AZ, ²Research, Maricopa Integrated Health System, phoenix, AZ, ³Rheumatology, Maricopa Integrated Health System and University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Campus, phoenix, AZ
Background/Purpose: HIV infection has been associated with a plethora of rheumatologic diseases, however there are only few studies in the US analyzing the frequency of…
Abstract Number: 1359 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
New Markers for Celiac Disease: Anti-Neo-Epitope Human and Microbial Transglutaminases
Torsten Matthias¹, Sandra Neidhöfer², Patricia Jeremias¹ and Aaron Lerner³, ¹Aesku.Kipp.Institute, Wendelsheim, Germany, ²AESKU.KIPP.Stitute, Wendelsheim, Germany, ³B. Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Background/Purpose: Microbial transglutaminase (mTg) and human tissue Tg (tTg) complexed to gliadin peptides present neo-epitopes. Antibodies against these complexes are called tTg neo-epitope and mTg…
Abstract Number: 1428 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patient Attitudes Towards Being Prescribed Biosimilars in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases in Germany
James Piercy¹, John Waller¹, Emma Sullivan¹, Christopher Black² and Sumesh Kachroo², ¹Adelphi Real World, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²CORE, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ
Background/Purpose: Our aim is to address the lack of understanding surrounding patient attitudes to being prescribed biosimilars in the real world for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA),…
Abstract Number: 1610 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Safety, Tolerability, and Dose-Dependent Inhibition of T-Cell-Dependent Antibody Response with MEDI4920, a Novel, Engineered CD40L Antagonist: Results of a Single-Ascending Dose Study in Healthy Volunteers
Marius Albulescu¹, Jim Bush², Firas Almazedi², Ethan Grant³, Alex Godwood¹, Robert Miday⁴, Krista Arbaugh⁴, Lisa H. Butler¹, Michele Gunsior⁴, Jing Li⁵ and David Howe¹, ¹MedImmune, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Covance Clinical Research Unit, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Translational Medicine, MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁴MedImmune, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁵MedImmune, Mountain View, CA
Background/Purpose: The CD40L/CD40 co-stimulatory pathway is important for T-cell-dependent antibody production. Previous clinical programs with intact monoclonal antibodies against CD40L have been discontinued due to…
Abstract Number: 1912 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A New Avenue of Immune Regulation Conferred By Self-Glycerophospholipids Via Mobilization and Migration of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells
Ramesh Halder¹ and Ram R. Singh^1,2,3, ¹Autoimmunity and Tolerance Laboratory, Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Lipids function as essential components of biological membranes, as signaling molecules, and as energy storage molecules. Glycerol-based phospholipids, called glycerophospholipids (GPL), are the most…
Abstract Number: 2150 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Autoimmune Uveitis : Potential Role of Interleukin-22 (IL-22) in Pathogenesis
El-Desouki Fouda¹, El-Sayed Mostafa Elewah², Mona Elrayes³, Ghada Fouda⁴ and Mohamed Ahmed Bakry⁵, ¹Al-Azhar University, Dokki Cairo, Egypt, ²Opthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, ³Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁴Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, ⁵Al-Azhar University, Allergy & Immunology Center, Cairo, Egypt
Background/Purpose: : IL-22 is a member of IL-10 family, with both anti- inflammatory and pro- inflammatory functions, orchestrating the immune and inflammatory response.IL-22 is secreted…

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