Abstracts tagged "Cytotoxic Cells"

Abstract Number: 1837 • ACR Convergence 2024
Baseline Multiome Sequencing of CD45RO+CD45RA-CD4+ T Cell Reveals Distinct Immune Profiles Associated with Subsequent Response to Secukinumab Treatment
Addison Pacheco¹, Zoya Qaiyum², Fataneh Tavasolian³, Melissa Lim⁴, Michael Tang¹ and Robert Inman¹, ¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Krembil Research Institute - the University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Our study aims to discriminate immune profiles between secukinumab responders (SEC-R) and nonresponders (SEC-NR) in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) patients before biologic treatment.Methods: CD45RO+CD45RA-CD4+ T…
Abstract Number: 1862 • ACR Convergence 2024
Folate Receptor β CAR-Tregs Induce Monocyte Apoptosis and Immune Polarization: Potential for Therapeutic Application in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Xiangni Wu¹, Pin-I Chen², Magdiel Pérez Cruz³, Kent Jensen³ and Everett Meyer³, ¹UMKC, KANSAS CITY, MO, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA., Sunnyvale, CA, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA., Stanford
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects approximately 1.3 million adults in the United States, causing significant morbidity and economic burden. Current treatments reduce inflammation and slow…
Abstract Number: 0080 • ACR Convergence 2024
Enhanced Cytotoxicity of Aging Associated NKG2C+ CD8+ T Cells in Ankylosing Spondylitis via HLA-B27
Kunhai Tang, Xiaobei Ma, Jian Gao, Feng Qian, Qi Zhu, Jiucun Wang and Jing Liu, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an immune-related chronic inflammatory disease characterized by inflammatory pain in the lower back and spinal ankylosing, accompanied by immune system disorders, such…
Abstract Number: 0835 • ACR Convergence 2024
Effective Engineering of CD8+ T Cells from Autoimmune Disease Patients Utilizing a CD8-Targeted Lipid NanoparticleEncoding an Anti-CD19 CAR mRNA(CPTX2309)
Yan Zhang¹, Brittany Ross¹, Diana Galvan¹, Yanjie Bao¹, Daiki Matsuda¹, Shaun Grosskurth¹, Iago Pinal-Fernandez², Maria Casal-Dominguez³, Gregor Adams¹, Michael Rosenzweig¹, Ramin Farzaneh-Far¹, Priya Karmali¹, Adrian Bot¹, Andrew Mammen² and Haig Aghajanian¹, ¹Capstan Therapeutics, San Diego, CA, ²NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³NIH, Bathesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Ex vivo chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have revolutionized cancer treatment and are demonstrating durable clinical efficacy in various autoimmune disease (AID)…
Abstract Number: 0087 • ACR Convergence 2023
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Expands an Activated, anti-PD-1 Drug-bound CD8 T Cell Population That Is Clonally Linked in Blood and Synovial Fluid of ICI-arthritis Patients
Kathryne Marks¹, Anvita Singaraju², Runci Wang³, Ifeoluwakiisi Adejoorin¹, Miriam Fein², Michael Postow⁴, Karmela Kim Chan², Anne Bass⁵, Laura Donlin² and Deepak Rao¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Renji hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Pudong Xinqu, China, ⁴Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies used to treat cancer can induce immune related Adverse events (irAEs) such as ICI-induced arthritis (ICI-arthritis). We have previously…
Abstract Number: 0092 • ACR Convergence 2023
Multi-omics Immune Profiling of Cytotoxic T Cells from Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients Identified a Subset of Clonally Exapnded CTLs That Evade Immune Exhaustion
Michael Tang¹, Zoya Qaiyum², Melissa Lim¹ and Robert Inman¹, ¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Sustained chronic inflammation in the spine and of the sacroiliac joints is a key feature in Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). A central role of CTL…
Abstract Number: 0093 • ACR Convergence 2023
Single Cell RNA-seq and Mass Cytometry Reveal a Cytotoxic CD8 Effector T Cell Population Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis Patients
Ye Cao¹, Takanori Sasaki², Richard Ainsworth³, Kim Taylor⁴, Nunzio Bottini⁵, Mehreen Elahee⁶, Edy Kim⁷, Francesco Boin³ and Deepak Rao⁷, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵University of California, San Francisco, CA, ⁶University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). We aimed to identify features of circulating immune…
Abstract Number: 1662 • ACR Convergence 2023
Chronic Excess IL-18 Induces NK Deficiency, but Drives Hyperinflammation via CD8 T-cell Cytokine Overproduction and Selective Immunodeficiency
Jemy Varghese¹, Scott Canna¹, Emily Landy², Laurence Eisenlohr¹, Elise Peauroi³, Vinh Dang¹, Anastasia Frank-Kamenetskii⁴ and Jeremy Morrissette⁵, ¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴CHOP/UPENN, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SJIA) and Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) are associated with highly elevated peripheral blood levels of the inflammasome-activated cytokine IL-18 and…
Abstract Number: 1790 • ACR Convergence 2023
Expansion of CD8+ TCRVβ9+ T Cells in the Peripheral Blood of HLA-B27+ Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis
Caroline Bauchiero¹, Micah Lefton¹, Stephanie Sinnappan², Jeffrey Sparks³ and Joerg Ermann⁴, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Columbia University, New York, NY, ³Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Studies in human HLA-B27 transgenic rats largely discredited the idea that CD8+ T cells are key drivers of disease in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). However,…
Abstract Number: 0569 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cytokine Storm Susceptibility Factors IL-18 and Cytotoxic Impairment Converge on Pathologic CD8 T-cell Hyperactivation
Emily Landy¹, Scott Canna², Paul Tsoukas³, Vinh Dang² and Jemy Varghese², ¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Mounting evidence suggests partial defects in cytotoxicity-related genes may promote hyperinflammation in Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) patients, who uniformly have highly-elevated IL-18. In mice,…
Abstract Number: 0628 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Positive-feedback Model for the Contribution of Virus-Specific T Cells to the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Hendrik Nel¹, Pascale Wehr², Christopher Andoniou³, Iona Schuster³, Stephanie Gras⁴, Helen McGuire⁵, Helen Weedon⁶, Annabelle Small⁷, Katie Lowe⁷, Mariapia Degli-Esposti³, Mihir Wechalekar⁸ and Ranjeny Thomas⁹, ¹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Woolloongabba, Australia, ²University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Brisbane, Australia, ³Infection and Immunity Program and Department of Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash, Australia, ⁴Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, ⁵The University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre, Camperdown, Australia, ⁶Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, Australia, ⁷Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, ⁸Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia, ⁹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is associated with specific HLA-DR genotypes with an emphasis on the role of CD4+ effector-memory T cells (Tem) in disease pathogenesis.…
Abstract Number: 1124 • ACR Convergence 2022
CD4+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (CTL) Are Present in Sjögren’s Disease Minor Salivary Glands and Associate with Markers of Epithelial Cell Damage near Infiltrates
Michelle Joachims¹, Chuang Li¹, Joshua Rusbuldt², Ben Fowler¹, Astrid Rasmussen¹, Kiely Grundahl¹, R. Hal Scofield³, Kathy Sivils⁴, Christopher Lessard¹ and A. Darise Farris¹, ¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Spring House, PA, ³University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁴Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
Background/Purpose: CD4+ T cells dominate focal lymphocytic infiltrates in Sjögren's disease (SjD), but their differentiation states have remained unclear. Here, we used single cell (sc)RNAseq…
Abstract Number: 1560 • ACR Convergence 2022
Modulation of NKG2D Expression on NK, NKT and CD8+ T Lymphocytes by in Vitro Treatments of Immune Cells from Patients with Behçet Disease
Martina Bonacini¹, Francesco Muratore¹, Giovanna Restuccia², Laura Albertazzi², Piera Zaldini², Luca Cimino³, Rossana Colla², Alessandro Zerbini¹, Carlo Salvarani⁴ and Stefania Croci¹, ¹Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale – IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ⁴Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Behçet disease (BD) is an inflammatory chronic disease characterized by alternation of active and inactive phases. Steroids, Colchine, Azathioprine (Aza) and interferon α are…
Abstract Number: 1702 • ACR Convergence 2022
Targeting CD6-CD318 Axis with UMCD6 (anti-CD6) Enhances in Vivo Killing of Cancer Cells Through Direct Activation of NK Cells
Mikel Gurrea-Rubio¹, Qi Wu¹, Eliza Pei-Suen Tsou¹, M. Asif Amin¹, Phillip Campbell¹, Peggy Randon¹, Matthew Lind¹, Sarah Ory¹, Camila Amarista¹, Sirapa Vichaikul², Jeffrey Ruth¹, Feng Ling³ and David Fox¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Michigan Medicine, Howell, MI, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors represent a major advance in cancer treatment, but disease prognosis continues to be poor for most patients. Resistance of cancer cells…
Abstract Number: 1704 • ACR Convergence 2022
Interaction of Macrophages and Natural Killer Cells in Pathogenesis of HIV-1-Associated Inflammatory Arthritis
Can Sungur¹, Gao Hongbo¹, Li-ping Yang², Liang Shan¹ and Wayne Yokoyama³, ¹Washington University, St. Louis, MO, ²Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ³Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a significant life-threatening agent and burden on public health. Lesser studied and understood aspects of HIV infections include HIV-associated…

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