Abstract Number: 2143 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Circulating Endothelial Cells and Endothelial Activation Markers As Disease Activity Measures in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Background/Purpose: The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are systemic autoimmune diseases with chronic muscle inflammation and microvasculopathy of muscle and skin capillaries. Circulating endothelial cells (CECs),…Abstract Number: 2338 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Plasma Exosomes from Children with Juvenile Dermatomyositis Are Taken up By Human Aortic Endothelial Cells and Are Associated with Altered Gene Expression in Those Cells
Background/Purpose: The pathology of juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is characterized by prominent vessel wall and perivascular inflammation. This feature of the disease has remained unexplained and…Abstract Number: 2813 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interferon-Induced APOL1 over-Expression Causes Autophagic Dysfunction and Mitochondrial Stress in Risk Variant-Carrying Endothelial Cells
Background/Purpose: In SLE Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk variants (RV) associate with cardiovascular and end stage renal disease. APOL1 induction initially promotes cellular maintenance through autophagy;…Abstract Number: 8 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Antiphospholipid Syndrome Leukocytes Demonstrate Increased Adhesive Potential: a Search for Novel Therapeutic Targets
Background/Purpose: Adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelium is an initiating event in the thrombosis inherent to antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Over the years, a number of…Abstract Number: 686 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Endothelial Dysfunction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients without Cardiovascular events and Risk Factors: Correlation with Microvascular Alterations and angiogenic t Cells
Background/Purpose: early identification of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients is mandatory to reduce morbidity and mortality. Endothelial dysfunction (ED) is…Abstract Number: 754 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interferon Siganture in Systemic Sclerosis Lung Microvascular Endothelial Cells
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by severe fibroproliferative vasculopathy, exaggerated deposition of extracellular matrix molecules (ECM) in skin and multiple internal organs, and alterations…Abstract Number: 755 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Pattern in Systemic Sclerosis Microvascular Endothelial Cells: Identification of Epigenetically Affected Key Genes and Pathways
Background/Purpose: The etiology of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is not clear, but there is evidence suggesting a critical role for epigenetic alterations in disease pathogenesis and…Abstract Number: 939 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING)-Induced Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EndMT) Contributes to Interstitial Lung Disease in Sting-Associated Vasculopathy with Onset in Infancy (SAVI) Patients
Background/Purpose: Pulmonary fibrosis, is a life-threatening complication of the monogenic autoinflammatory interferonopathy, STING-Associated Vasculopathy with onset in Infancy (SAVI) that is caused by gain-of-function mutations…Abstract Number: 477 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Conventional Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, but Not COX2 Selective Inhibitors, Are Beneficial on Vascular Function in Arthritis: A Study in Adjuvant Induced Arthritis
Background/Purpose: (RA) is associated with an increase in cardiovascular (CV) risk explained in part by an accelerated atherosclerosis as a consequence of endothelial dysfunction. Non-steroidal…Abstract Number: 1127 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Extracellular Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Is Essential for Hypoxia-Induced Angiogenesis in a Hypoxia Inducible Factor Independent Manner
Background/Purpose: Angiogenesis is a hallmark of the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but also of other inflammatory processes, tissue regeneration and progressing tumors. In RA,…Abstract Number: 2066 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Anti-Ds-DNA Antibodies Regulate Atherothrombosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus through the Induction of Netosis, the Prothrombotic and Proinflammatory Activities of Monocytes and the Endothelial Activation
Background/Purpose: The role of anti-dsDNA in the pathogenesis of the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been clearly established. However, the influence of these autoantibodies in…Abstract Number: 2149 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Adipokines Alter the Interaction Between Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts Adhesion and Endothelial Cells
Background/Purpose: Synovial fibroblast plays a key role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which is a chronic polyarticular inflammatory disease. SF are able to migrate long distances…Abstract Number: 2154 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Novel Pathogenic Functions of IL-11 on RA Joint Fibroblasts and Endothelial Cells
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease affecting 2.5 millions of Americans. Several cytokines are involved in RA pathogenesis and may serve as…Abstract Number: 2287 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum Urate and Its Association with Endothelial Dysfunction in Young Adults
Background/Purpose: Both serum urate (sUA) and endothelial dysfunction have been associated with hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Increasing sUA level has been associated with endothelial dysfunction…Abstract Number: 2425 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Vasculopathy of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM); Evidence of Persistent Endothelial Injury, Hypercoagulability, Subclinical Inflammation and Increased Arterial Stiffness
Background/Purpose: Vasculopathy is considered central to the pathogenesis of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM). The interplay between persistent JDM-vasculopathy, traditional cardiovascular risk factors, exposure to corticosteroids, and…
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