Abstracts tagged "B-Lymphocyte"

Abstract Number: 0527 • ACR Convergence 2020
Rituximab for Refractory Manifestations of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Multicenter Israeli Experience
Nancy Agmon-Levin¹, Mark Berman², Liora Harel³, Merav Lidar⁴, Soad Hajyahia¹ and Daphna Paran⁵, ¹Clinical Immunology, Angioedema and Allergy Unit, Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel, ²Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Scheider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel, ⁴Rheumatology unit, Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Hod Hasharon, Israel, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Background/Purpose: The clinical manifestations of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are heterogeneous and related to anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPL). There is some evidence that B cells are…
Abstract Number: 1439 • ACR Convergence 2020
Proteinase 3-Reactive B Cell Pool Restructuring After Rituximab and Risk of Relapse in Severe PR3-ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
Alvise Berti¹, Sophie Hillion², Marta Casal Moura¹, Amber Hummel¹, Eva Carmona¹, Tobias Peikert¹, Carol Langford³, Peter A. Merkel⁴, Paul Monach⁵, Philip Seo⁶, Robert Spiera⁷, Eugene St Clair⁸, Fernando C. Fervenza¹, Kristina Harris⁹, John H. Stone¹⁰, Jacques-Olivier Pers¹¹, Ulrich Specks¹ and Divi Cornec¹², ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Brest University, Brest, Bretagne, France, ³Cleveland Clinic, Moreland Hills, OH, ⁴Division of Rheumatology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Brigham and Women's, Boston, ⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA, New York, NY, ⁸Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁹Immune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹University of Brest, Brest, France, ¹²Rheumatology Department, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France
Background/Purpose: In ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) B cells play a central pathogenic role and are instrumental for the production of ANCA, which are thought to mediate…
Abstract Number: 0778 • ACR Convergence 2020
Bacterial Families Lachnospiraceae/Ruminococcaceae Are Immunologically Targeted in Individuals At-risk for RA and a Specific Strain Is Arthritogenic in Monocultured Gnotobiotic Mice
Meagan Chriswell¹, Jennifer Seifert², Lisa Blum³, Michelle Bloom³, Marie Feser⁴, M Kristen Demoruelle⁵, Jill Norris⁶, Kevin D. Deane⁷, Eddie James⁸, Jane Buckner⁸, William Robinson³, V. Michael Holers⁵ and Kristine Kuhn⁹, ¹UC Denver SOM, Denver, CO, ²UC Denver, Littleton, CO, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA, Colorado, ⁵University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁶Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ⁷2 Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA, Colorado, ⁸Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, ⁹University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Circulating autoantibodies, including anti-CCP and RF, develop years before physical manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with several lines of evidence suggesting that these autoantibodies…
Abstract Number: 1455 • ACR Convergence 2020
Functional Characterization of PLCG2 Mutations Found in Subjects with Autoinflammation and PLCG2-Associated Antibody Deficiency and Immune Dysregulation (APLAID) Reveals Both Hypermorphic and Hypomorphic Mutants
Kathleen Baysac¹, Charles Fisher², Hiroto Nakano², Joshua Milner³ and Michael Ombrello⁴, ¹NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, ³Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁴Translational Genetics and Genomics Unit, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: PLCG2-associated antibody deficiency and immune dysregulation (PLAID) and autoinflammatory PLAID (APLAID) are autosomal dominant diseases caused by mutations of PLCG2. APLAID is clinically characterized by episodic…
Abstract Number: 0851 • ACR Convergence 2020
Iberdomide Decreases B Cells and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, Increases Regulatory T Cells and IL-2, and Has Enhanced Clinical Efficacy in Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients with High Aiolos or the IFN Gene Expression Signature
Peter Lipsky¹, Ronald van Vollenhoven², Thomas Dörner³, Victoria Werth⁴, Joan Merrill⁵, Richard Furie⁶, Milan Petronijevic⁷, Benito Velasco Zamora⁸, Maria Majdan⁹, Fedra Irazoque-Palazuelos¹⁰, Robert Terbrueggen¹¹, Nikolay Delev¹², Michael Weiswasser¹², Shimon Korish¹², Nataliya Agafonova¹², Mark Stern¹³, Sarah Hersey¹³, Ying Ye¹³, Allison Gaudy¹², Zhaohui Liu¹², Shaojun Tang¹³ and Peter Schafer¹², ¹RILITE Foundation, Charlottesville, VA, ²Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³DRFZ and Charité University Hospitals, Berlin, Germany, ⁴University of Pennsylvania and the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY, ⁷Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia, ⁸Instituto CER S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁹Medical University of Lublin and Samodzielny Publicnzy Szpital Kliniczny Nr 4 w Lublinie, Lublin, Poland, ¹⁰Centro de Investigación y Tratamiento Reumatológico S.C, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico, ¹¹DxTerity Diagnostics Inc, Rancho Dominguez, ¹²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, ¹³Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton
Background/Purpose: Iberdomide is a high-affinity cereblon ligand that promotes ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation of Ikaros (IKZF1) and Aiolos (IKZF3), transcription factors linked to the genetic…
Abstract Number: 1456 • ACR Convergence 2020
Exploring the RA Bone Marrow Niche by Single-cell Technology to Identify Long Lived ACPA+ Plasma Cells
Khaled Amara¹, Aase Hensvold², Radha Thyagarajan¹, Lena Israelsson¹, Johanna Steen¹, Heidi Wähämaa¹, Monika Hansson¹, Marianne Engström¹, Annika van Vollenhoven¹, Anca Catrina², Vivianne Malmström³ and Caroline Grönwall¹, ¹Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, ³Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies is a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis, placing the adaptive immune system and B-cells centrally in the pathogenesis. The anti-citrullinated autoantibodies (ACPA) detected in…
Abstract Number: 0859 • ACR Convergence 2020
Biomarkers of B-cell Depletion and Response in a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Obinutuzumab for Proliferative Lupus Nephritis
Ed Vital¹, Philippe Remy², Luis Fernando Quintana Porras³, Laurent Chiche⁴, Dominique Chauveau⁵, Richard Furie⁶, Thomas Schindler⁷, Jay Garg⁸, Matthew Cascino⁸, Zahir Amoura⁹, Andrea Doria¹⁰, Cary Looney⁸ and Dario Roccatello¹¹, ¹University of Leeds; NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²APHP Groupe Hospitalier Henri-Mondor, Creteil, France, ³Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ⁴Hôpital Européen, Marseille, France, ⁵Hôpital Rangueil, Centre Hospitalier Univ de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, ⁶Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY, ⁷F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, ⁸Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁹Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, ¹⁰University of Padua, Padua, Italy, ¹¹S Giovanni Hospital, Univ of Turin, Turin, Italy
Background/Purpose: Incomplete B-cell and plasmablast depletion, as measured using highly sensitive flow cytometry (HSFC), is associated with lower response rates following rituximab in SLE [1].…
Abstract Number: 1480 • ACR Convergence 2020
Abatacept for the Treatment of IgG4-Related Disease
Mark Matza¹, Cory Perugino¹, Liam Harvey², Zachary Wallace³, Hang Liu⁴, Shiv Pillai⁵ and John H. Stone⁶, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA, ⁵Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, ⁶Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of abatacept (ABA) for the treatment of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). To date, there are no FDA-approved treatments available…
Abstract Number: 0948 • ACR Convergence 2020
Mass Cytometry Reveals Activation Heterogeneity of Circulating Neutrophils in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer¹, Joshua Keegan², Peter Nigrovic³, James Lederer⁴ and Deepak Rao², ¹Department of Medicine V, Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Heidelberg, Germany, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, ⁴BWH Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Neutrophils are important effector cells in systemic immune-mediated diseases. Neutrophil phenotypes vary depending on their age, maturity, activation state, and local environment; however, differences…
Abstract Number: 1524 • ACR Convergence 2020
Interstitial Lung Disease, Kidney Inflammation and Myositis Are Induced by Transfer of PBMC Derived from Systemic Sclerosis Patients into Rag2-/-/ IL2rg-/- mice
Xiaoyang Yue¹, Frank Petersen¹, Xinhua Yu¹, Gabriela Riemekasten², Peter Lamprecht³, Antje Müller³ and Junping Yin⁴, ¹Priority Area Asthma & Allergy, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Members of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany, ²University of Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,, Lübeck, Germany, ³University of Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Lübeck, Germany, ⁴1 Priority Area Asthma & Allergy, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Members of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL),, Borstel, Germany
Background/Purpose: To explore the pathogenic potential of lymphocytes in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), a humanized mouse model was generated by transferring…

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