Abstracts tagged "cytokines"

Abstract Number: 0731 • ACR Convergence 2020
Comparing S100 Proteins and Cytokine Levels in Tears Based on Uveitis Activity Laterality in Children with JIA-associated Uveitis and Non-JIA-U
Jackeline Rodriguez-Smith¹, Virginia Miraldi Utz², Amy Cassedy¹, Sherry Thornton¹, Grant Schulert³, Alyssa Sproles⁴, Najima Mwase¹, Theresa Hennard¹, Mekibib Altaye², Alexei Grom¹ and Sheila Angeles-Han¹, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, ³PRCSG, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati
Background/Purpose: The pathogenesis of pediatric uveitis remains unclear. Studies of biomarkers using aqueous humor (AqH) identified S100 proteins, cytokines, and chemokines as potential biomarkers of…
Abstract Number: 1408 • ACR Convergence 2020
Metabolic Reprogramming in Memory CD4+ T Cells Is Associated with Immune Cell Dysfunction During Aging
Yuling Chen¹, Yuanchun Ye², Hao Wu³, Pierre-Louis Krauß¹, Pelle Löwe¹, Moritz Pfeiffenberger¹, Lisa Ehlers¹, Thomas Buttgereit⁴, Paula Hoff⁵, Frank Buttgereit⁶ and Timo Gaber¹, ¹Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ²Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ³Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Institut für Systemimmunologie, Würzburg, Germany, ⁴Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Dermatology, Venerology, and Allergology, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Endokrinologikum Berlin, Rheumatologie, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Inflamm-aging is a chronic, sterile, low-grade inflammatory status, characterized by an increase of proinflammatory cytokines which participate in the development of most age-related diseases…
Abstract Number: 0745 • ACR Convergence 2020
Development of Functional Assays to Pre-qualify Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
Maya Breitman¹, Tracey Bonfield², Arnold Caplan³, Hillard Lazarus⁴, Maricela Haghiac⁵, Jane Reese⁶ and Nora Singer¹, ¹The MetroHealth System, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ²National Center of Regenerative Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ³Skeletal Research Center Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, ⁵The MetroHealth System, Cleveland, OH, ⁶University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Sero-positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that without effective treatment, leads to joint damage and disability. Not all patients respond to…
Abstract Number: 1414 • ACR Convergence 2020
Highly Polyfunctional Metabolically Altered Pathogenic T Cells Accumulate in the Synovial Tissue of RA Patients and Arthralgia Subject but Not Healthy Control Synovial Tissue
Achilleas Floudas¹, Barry Moran², Nuno Neto³, Michael Monaghan⁴, Vinod Krishna⁵, Sunil Nagpal⁶, Phil Gallagher⁷, Conor Hurson⁸, Douglas Veale⁹ and Ursula Fearon¹⁰, ¹Molecular Rheumatology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ²Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Ireland, ³Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin, Ireland, ⁵Janssen R&D, Spring House, PA, ⁶Janssen Research & Development, Collegeville, PA, ⁷St Vincents University Hospital, UCD, Dublin, Ireland, ⁸St Vincents University Hospital, UCD, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁹EULAR Centre for Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, St Vincents University Hospital, UCD, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁰Molecular Rheumatology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Effective treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is achievable within a short window of opportunity following diagnosis. Identification of pathogenic immune mechanisms at a…
Abstract Number: 0751 • ACR Convergence 2020
Serum Interferon-Alpha Levels Could Help Identify a Subgroup of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Poorer Physical Function and Higher Physician Global Assessment
Yong Gil Hwang¹, Lei Zhu², Dongwen Wu² and Larry Moreland³, ¹University of Pittsburgh Physicians, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Colorado, Colorado
Background/Purpose: Our objective was to identify the clinical significance of serum interferon-alpha levels in patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods: Serum samples and clinical data…
Abstract Number: 1449 • ACR Convergence 2020
Altered Splicing in Leukocytes from Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Lupus: Clinical Involvement
Alejandra Maria Patiño-Trives¹, Alejandro Ibáñez-Costa², Carlos Pérez-Sánchez¹, Laura Pérez-Sanchez³, Maria Luque-Tevar¹, Iván Arias de la Rosa¹, María-Carmen Abalos-Aguilera¹, Desirée Ruiz-Vilchez⁴, Pedro Segui⁵, Mario Espinosa⁵, Nuria Barbarroja¹, Eduardo Collantes⁴, Justo P. Castaño⁵, Raul M Luque⁵, María de los ángeles Aguirre-Zamorano⁵ and Chary Lopez-Pedrera¹, ¹Rheumatology Department, Reina Sofia University Hospital/ Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ²IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Córdoba, ³Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Reina Sofia University Hospital/ Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, Córdoba, Spain, ⁵IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba
Background/Purpose: To identify shared and differential changes in the splicing machinery of immune cells from antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome…
Abstract Number: 0777 • ACR Convergence 2020
CLEC12A Expression as a Potential Predictor of Disease Activity in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Myriam Vaillancourt¹, Philippe Desaulniers¹, Guillaume Paré¹, Nathalie Pagé¹, Asmaa Lachaab¹, Anthony Kerever¹, Anne-Sophie Julien¹, Nathalie Amiable¹, Martin Pelletier¹, Philippe Tessier¹, Louis Bessette², Paul Fortin³, Laetitia Michou¹ and Maria Fernandes¹, ¹Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ²Laval University, Quebec, Canada, ³CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) develops as a result of the dysregulation of immune activating and inhibitory pathways. Several lines of evidence indicate that inhibitory receptors…
Abstract Number: 1484 • ACR Convergence 2020
Efficacy of Tocilizumab in Patients with Hand Osteoarthritis: Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Multicenter Trial
Pascal Richette¹, Augustin Latourte², Jeremie Sellam³, Daniel Wendling⁴, Muriel Piperno⁵, Philippe Goupille⁶, Yves-Marie Pers⁷, Florent Eymard⁸, Sebastien Ottaviani⁹, Paul Ornetti¹⁰, Rene-Marc Flipo¹¹, Bruno Fautrel¹², Jean-Pierre Bertola¹³, Eric Vicaut¹⁴ and Xavier Chevalier¹⁵, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Lariboisière Hospital, AP-HP Université de Paris, INSERM U1132, Paris, ²Department of Rheumatology, Lariboisière Hospital, AP-HP Université de Paris, INSERM U1132, Paris, France, ³AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service de Rhumatologie, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, INSERM UMR_S 938,Sorbonne Université, Paris, 75012, France, Paris, France, ⁴CHU Besançon, department of rheumatology, Besancon, France, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Lyon University Hospital, Lyon, France, ⁶CHU Tours, department of rheumatology, Tours, France, ⁷IRMB, University of Montpellier, Inserm U1183, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, ⁸APHP Henri Mondor Hospital, Creteil, France, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Bichat hospital, APHP, Paris, France, ¹⁰CHU Dijon, INSERM CAPS 1093, plateforme d’investigation technologique CIC1432, Dijon, France, ¹¹Lille University Hospital, Lille, France, ¹²Sorbonne University, INSERM, IPLES; Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, ¹³CHUGAI PHARMA FRANCE, Paris, France, ¹⁴Clinical Research Unit, Paris, ¹⁵AP-HP, UPEC, Créteil
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of tocilizumab, an antibody against interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R), in patients with hand osteoarthritis.Methods: This was a multicenter, 12-week, randomized, double-blind,…
Abstract Number: 0003 • ACR Convergence 2020
Assessing Cytokine Profiles and COVID Serology in Patients on Immunosuppression to Guide Care Recommendations
Quinn Pritchett¹, Rebecca Overbury¹, Dorota Lebiedz-Odrobina¹, Julie Thomas¹, Tawnie Braaten², Stacey Clardy¹, Marc Elgort³, Emily Spivak¹, Patricia Slev³, Lisa Peterson³ and Tracy Frech⁴, ¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ³ARUP, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁴University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affair Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic is especially terrifying for patients on immunosuppression for autoimmune disease. With the exception of social isolation, experts do not have clear…
Abstract Number: 0791 • ACR Convergence 2020
Peficitinib Inhibits Angiogenesis via Suppression of VEGF Production in Rheumatoid Arthritis Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes
Yuzo Ikari¹, Takeo Isozaki¹, Kuninobu Wakabayashi¹ and Tsuyoshi Kasama², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, Koutou-ku Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Peficitinib is a novel Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor developed for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Peficitinib has approved in 2019 in Japan, but…
Abstract Number: 1511 • ACR Convergence 2020
Clinical Features and Select Dysregulated Immune Parameters Distinguish Blood Relatives Who Remain Clinically Stable or Progress to Incomplete Lupus or Classified SLE in the Lupus Autoimmunity in Relatives (LAUREL) Follow-up Cohort
Melissa Munroe¹, Kendra Young², Jill Norris³, Joel Guthridge⁴, Diane Kamen⁵, Timothy Niewold⁶, Gary Gilkeson⁷, Michael Weisman⁸, Mariko Ishimori⁹, Daniel Wallace¹⁰, David Karp¹¹, John Harley¹² and Judith James¹³, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation/Progentec Diagnostics, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, ²University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, ³Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁶NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ⁸Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, LOS ANGELES, CA, ⁹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁰Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ¹¹UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ¹²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Univ of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ¹³Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK
Background/Purpose: Identifying populations at risk of SLE is essential to curtail inflammatory damage and identify individuals for prevention trials. Unaffected blood relatives (BRs) of lupus…
Abstract Number: 0065 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Energy-dependent Hierarchy of Immune Functions in Human Monocytes
Pierre-Louis Krauß¹, Thomas Buttgereit², Yuling Chen¹, Moritz Pfeiffenberger¹, Timo Gaber¹ and Frank Buttgereit³, ¹Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ²Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Dermatology, Venerology, and Allergology, Berlin, Germany, ³Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: At sites of inflammation, monocytes carry out specific immunological functions while facing challenging bioenergetic restrictions. Here, we investigated the potential of human monocytes to…
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: 1523 • ACR Convergence 2020
Pulmonary Cytokine, Chemokine and Growth Factor Profiles of Distinct Radiographic Patterns of Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis
Elizabeth Volkmann¹, Donald Tashkin², Ning Li², Mei Leng², Grace Kim², Jonathan Goldin², Airi Harui² and Michael Roth², ¹University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Background/Purpose: The radiological hallmarks of systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) include interstitial inflammation (ground glass opacity) with reticular changes (fibrosis). The precise pathobiology of…
Abstract Number: 0095 • ACR Convergence 2020
Systematic Evaluation of Nine Monogenic Autoinflammatory Diseases Reveals Common and Disease-Specific Correlations with Allergy-Associated Features
Moses Kitakule¹, Brian Dizon², Cristhian Gutierrez-Huerta¹, Sarah Blackstone², Aarohan Burma¹, Aran Son¹, Natalie Deuitch¹, Sofia Rosenzweig¹, Hirsh Komarow¹, Deborah Stone³, Anne Jones⁴, Michele Nehrbecky¹, Patrycja Hoffmann⁵, Tina Romeo⁶, Adriana de Jesus⁷, Sara Alehashemi⁸, Megha Garg⁹, Sofia Torreggiani¹⁰, Gina Montealegre Sanchez¹¹, Katelin R. Honer¹⁰, Karyl Barron¹, Ivona Aksentijevich⁴, Amanda Ombrello¹², Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky¹³, Daniel Kastner¹⁴, Joshua Milner¹⁵, Pamela Frischmeyer-Guerrerio¹ and Daniella Schwartz¹⁶, ¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, ²National Institutes of Health, BETHESDA, MD, ³NIH, Bethesda, ⁴National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁵NIH, Vienna, VA, ⁶NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁷Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Silver Spring, MD, ⁸Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Clarksville, MD, ⁹NIH/NIAID, Rochester, NY, ¹⁰Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹¹NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD, ¹²National Human Genome Research Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹³Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section (TADS)/NIAID/NIH, Potomac, MD, ¹⁴National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁵Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁶National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Monogenic autoinflammatory diseases (AID) are caused by mutations in innate immune signaling genes. The effect of these mutations on the risk of allergy is…

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