Abstracts tagged "Biomarkers"

Abstract Number: 1747 • ACR Convergence 2022
Changes in the Number and Phenotype of Citrullinated-Antigen Specific T Cells Correlate with Treatment Outcome in Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cliff Rims¹, Virginia Muir¹, Anne Hocking¹, Sylvia Posso¹, Heather Bukiri², Jeffrey Carlin³, Bernard Ng⁴, Peter Linsley¹, Eddie James⁵ and Jane Buckner⁵, ¹Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ⁴VA Puget Sound HCS, Seattle, WA, ⁵Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: In Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) citrullinated antigen reactive T cells are key drivers of disease, but knowledge about their relative number and phenotype remains limited.…
Abstract Number: 1962 • ACR Convergence 2022
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Molecular Profile Correlates with Stage of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Daniel Kass¹, Mehdi Nouraie¹, Yingze Zhang¹, Bryant England², Ted Mikuls³, Gail Kerr⁴, Andreas Reimold⁵, Kevin Gibson¹, Marilyn Glassberg⁶, Paul Dellaripa⁷, Tracy Doyle⁷, Chester Oddis⁸ and Dana Ascherman⁸, ¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁵North Texas Veterans Administration Health Care System, Dallas, TX, ⁶Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated clinical, epidemiologic, histopathologic, and genetic overlap between advanced rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Corresponding…
Abstract Number: 2148 • ACR Convergence 2022
Analysis of Serum Proteomics Data Identifies Beta-Defensin 2 as a Predictive Biomarker of Clinical Response to IL-17 Blockade in Psoriatic Arthritis
Mathias Cardner¹, Danny Tuckwell², Anna Kostikova², Pascal Forrer³, Richard Siegel², Alain Marti³, Marc Vandemeulebroecke³ and Enrico Ferrero², ¹Novartis Global Drug Development and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, ²Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, ³Novartis Global Drug Development, Basel, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Despite several effective targeted therapies, biomarkers that predict whether a patient with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) will respond to a particular treatment are currently lacking.Methods:…
Abstract Number: 0120 • ACR Convergence 2022
Epstein Barr Virus Reactivation in Native American Rheumatic Disease Patients Is Associated with Systemic Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis but Not Other Rheumatic Diseases
Carla J. Guthridge¹, Catriona Wagner², Sohail Khan³, Michael Peercy⁴, Bobby Saunkeah⁴, Joel Guthridge¹ and Judith James¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA, ³Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK, ⁴Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK
Background/Purpose: EBV infection is associated with autoantibody development in the preclinical period of rheumatic diseases, such as SLE and RA. Furthermore, EBV reactivation, characterized by…
Abstract Number: 0360 • ACR Convergence 2022
Longitudinal Variation of Proteomic Biomarkers That Correlate with Efficacy Endpoints: Results from a Phase 3 Trial of Anifrolumab in Moderate to Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Mark Lazarus¹, Paul Newcombe¹, Richard A. Furie², Philip Brohawn³, Wendy White³, Dominic Sinibaldi³, Nicola Ferrari¹, Raj Tummala³, Hussein Al-Mossawi¹, Edward Vital⁴, Eric F. Morand⁵, Daniel Muthas⁶ and Madhu Ramaswamy³, ¹AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ³AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁴University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ⁵Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁶AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Phase 2/3 clinical trials in patients with moderate to severe SLE have demonstrated that anifrolumab, a monoclonal antibody blocking IFNAR1, produced better clinical outcomes…
Abstract Number: 0602 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cellworks Biosimulation Model (CBM) for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Accurately Captures Patient’s Disease Activity at the Molecular Level Using Their Omics Data and Can Bring Personalization to Treatment Selection in RA
Himanshu Grover¹, Ansu Kumar¹, Anushua Chakraborty¹, Susheel George Chandy¹, Vivek Patil¹, Swati Khandelwal¹, Vishwas Joseph¹, Deepak Anil Lala¹, Prashant Ramachandran Nair¹, Karthik Sundara Raju¹, Kunal Ghosh Roy¹, Shahabuddin Usmani¹, Aftab Alam¹, Swaminathan Rajagopalan¹, Yatin Mundkur¹ and Andrew Concoff², ¹Cellworks Group Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ²United Rheumatology, Hauppauge, NY
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA demonstrate varied individual responses to the many treatment options available. In the absence of accurate, precision prediction of medication response, current…
Abstract Number: 0836 • ACR Convergence 2022
Bone Turnover and Physical Activity Before and After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Elizabeth Wellsandt¹, David Werner¹, Mikayla McKee², Matthew Tao², Kaleb Michaud¹ and Yvonne Golightly¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Background/Purpose: Individuals after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) have 8 times higher odds of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA) within 10 years compared to those with…
Abstract Number: 1116 • ACR Convergence 2022
Peripheral Blood DNA Methylation-based Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Knee Osteoarthritis Progression: Biospecimens and Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative and Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project
Chris Dunn¹, Cassandra Sturdy², Cassandra Velasco³, Leoni Schlupp², Emmaline Prinz², Vladislav Izda⁴, Liubov Arbeeva⁵, Yvonne Golightly⁶, Amanda Nelson⁷ and Matlock Jeffries², ¹University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK, ²Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, New York, NY, ⁵University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁷University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by a variety of clinical and molecular phenotypes, for which there exist no widely-available biomarkers. We…
Abstract Number: 1400 • ACR Convergence 2022
Machine Learning Identifies Molecular Phenotypes That Predict Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tate Johnson¹, Rebekah Gundry², Merry Lindsey², Punyasha Roul³, Yangyuna Yang², Joshua Baker⁴, Brian Sauer⁵, Grant Cannon⁶, Geoffrey Thiele², Ted Mikuls⁷ and Bryant England², ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Elkhorn, NE, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³UNMC, Omaha, NE, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Salt Lake City VA/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁶Retired, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). General population CVD risk calculators underestimate risk in RA,…
Abstract Number: 1537 • ACR Convergence 2022
Proteomic Profiling of Plasma Microvesicles Isolated from Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Line Iversen¹, Ole Østergaard², Tina Friis³, susanne Ullman⁴, Søren Jacobsen⁵ and Jesper Olsen², ¹Department of Dermatology, Odense University Hospital., Odense, Denmark, ²Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Department of Autoimmunology and Biomarkers, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Department of Dermatology, Bispebjerg, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: In the current work, we used a mass spectrometry based proteomics workflow to analyze isolated plasma microvesicles from systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients and from…
Abstract Number: 1748 • ACR Convergence 2022
Deep Immune Profiling of Cytotoxic T Cells (CTL) from Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Revealed a Subset of CTL Co-Expressing PD-1 and TIGIT That Resists Immune Exhaustion
Michael Tang¹, Addison Pacheco², Zoya Qaiyum³, Melissa Lim¹ and Robert Inman¹, ¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Unresolved, chronic inflammation is a key feature of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) yet the immunological events perpetuating remain unclear. The strongest genetic association with AS…
Abstract Number: 1968 • ACR Convergence 2022
Dysregulation of γδ-T Cells in Individuals at Risk of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis
Klára Prajzlerová¹, Olga Kryštůfková², Nora Petrovská², Petra Hánová¹, Hana Hulejová¹, Jiří Vencovský², Ladislav Šenolt² and Mária Filková², ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: Non-conventional T cells (γδ-T and NK-T cells) and natural killer (NK) cells are involved in the regulation of the immune system, and their alteration…
Abstract Number: 2160 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Role of CCL21 in Serum Samples from Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Henriette Didriksen¹, Øyvind Molberg², Adi Mehta³, Suzana Jordan⁴, Håvard Fretheim³, Einar Gude³, Thor Ueland³, Cathrine Brunborg³, Vyacheslav Palchevskiy⁵, Torhild Garen³, Øyvind Midtvedt³, Arne Andreassen³, Fridtjof Lund-Johansen³, Oliver Distler⁴, John Belperio⁵ and Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold³, ¹Oslo University Hospital, Moss, Norway, ²Department of Rheumatology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ³Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ⁵University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Chemokines appear to be important for the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. Humans may generate antibodies targeting chemokines leading to inhibition of signaling and driving…
Abstract Number: 0123 • ACR Convergence 2022
Increase of Serum Endothelin-1 Levels in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with Autoimmune Diseases
Sara Remuzgo-Martinez¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo¹, Veronica Pulito-Cueto¹, Fernanda Genre¹, Víctor M. Mora-Cuesta¹, David Iturbe-Fernández¹, Virgi Portilla¹, María Sebastián Mora-Gil¹, J Gonzalo Ocejo-Vinyals², Oreste Gualillo³, Alfonso Corrales¹, Santos Castañeda⁴, Raquel Lopez Mejias⁵, José M. Cifrián¹ and Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁶, ¹Research Group on Genetic Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis in Systemic Diseases and in Metabolic Bone Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System, IDIVAL; and Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²Department of Immunology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ³Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saude) and IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago), NEIRID Lab (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases), Research Laboratory 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ⁵IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ⁶Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) may occur in patients with a rheumatic autoimmune disease (AD), increasing their morbidity and mortality [1]. In this regard, the…
Abstract Number: 0362 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Renal Activity Index for Lupus (RAIL) Identifies Active Renal Disease in SLE Patients and Its Longitudinal Score Associates with Renal Responses in Lupus Nephritis
Hermine I. Brunner¹, Catharina Lindholm², Ellen Cody¹, Prasad Devarajan¹, Bin Huang¹, Dominic Sinibaldi³, Madhu Ramaswamy³, Jacob Knagenhjelm⁴, Tingting Qiu¹, Frederick Jones⁵, Philip Brohawn³, Raj Tummala³ and Wendy White³, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ³AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, ⁴AstraZeneca, Gateborg, Sweden, ⁵AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: LN confers poor prognosis, and there is a lack of effective non-invasive tests to assess disease activity and treatment response. We previously showed that…

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