Abstracts tagged "Fibroblasts, Other"

Abstract Number: 1860 • ACR Convergence 2025
GLUT and FAPα as molecular imaging markers for interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis
Bo Broens¹, Conny van der Laken¹, Teodora Radonic¹, Douwe Mulder², esther Nossent¹, Yehya Al-Adwi², Tji Gan², Wim Timens², Alexandre Voskuijl³ and Jan Willem Duitman¹, ¹Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²UMCG Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: The clinical management of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is challenging due to its heterogeneous progression. While recent studies have shown that pulmonary…
Abstract Number: 1856 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Proteomic-based Phenotyping of Fibroblast Populations and their Microenvironment in Systemic Sclerosis Primary Heart Involvement
Ayla Nadja Stuetz¹, Giacomo de Luca², Alexandru-Emil Matei³, Yi-Nan Li⁴, Veronica Batani², Tim Filla⁵, Aleix Rius Rigau⁶, Bilgesu Safak Tümerdem¹, Cosimo Bruni⁷, Maike Büttner-Herold⁸, Stefania Rizzo⁹, Monica De Gaspari⁹, Markus Eckstein¹⁰, Georg Schett¹¹, Cristina Basso⁹, Jörg Distler¹², Marco Matucci-Cerinic¹³ and Andrea-Hermina Györfi¹⁴, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ²Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine ³, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁸Department of Nephropathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University and Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy, ¹⁰Institute of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center EMN, Friedrich-Alexander- Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹¹Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ¹²University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹³University San Raffaele Milano, Milano, Milan, Italy, ¹⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Primary heart involvement (pHI) is one of the leading causes of death in systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, the cellular and molecular pathomechanisms of SSc-pHI…
Abstract Number: 1830 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single-Cell and Spatial Profiling Reveal Proinflammatory and Profibrotic Fibroblast-Macrophage Niches in Lupus Nephritis
Chirag Raparia¹, Paul Hoover², Nir Hacohen³, Arnon Arazi⁴ and Anne Davidson¹, ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, Cambridge, MA, ⁴Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Acton, MA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe complication of SLE that can progress to chronic kidney disease, renal fibrosis, and eventual renal failure. Fibroblasts activated…
Abstract Number: 1805 • ACR Convergence 2025
Human meniscus histopathological and transcriptomic changes at early and advanced stages of knee osteoarthritis
Takuya Sakamoto¹, Merissa Olmer¹, chelsea Kenvisay¹, Rachel Miller², Anne-Marie Malfait³, Darryl D'Lima⁴, William Bugbee⁵, Hannah Swahn⁶ and Martin Lotz⁷, ¹Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, ²Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³Rush University, Oak Park, IL, ⁴Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA, ⁵Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA, ⁶Scripps Research Institute, Carlsbad, CA, ⁷Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA
Background/Purpose: The knee menisci are essential in joint biomechanics while meniscus damage is a driver of knee osteoarthritis (OA) and an important source of knee…
Abstract Number: 1752 • ACR Convergence 2025
Prg4+ Ligament Cells Are Involved in Ligament Ossification in Ankylosing Spondylitis
Kunhai Tang¹, Lilu Zu¹, Chenyuan Wu¹, Jiucun Wang¹ and Jing Liu², ¹Fudan University, shanghai, China (People's Republic), ²Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis(AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease with clinical symptoms characterized by inflammatory low back pain and spinal ankylosis due to ligament ossification. Enthesitis…
Abstract Number: 1684 • ACR Convergence 2025
Integration of Multiple Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Novel Insights into Sjogren Disease Salivary Gland Fibroblast by Peripheral Serostatus
Zhou Fang¹, Ahmet Coskun¹ and Sara McCoy², ¹Georgia Tech, Atlanta, ²University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Anti-SSA antibody positive (SSA+ [Ro52 or Ro60]) and negative (SSA-) Sjögren disease (SjD) have differing clinical phenotypes and prognostic features; however, the pathogenesis driving…
Abstract Number: 1682 • ACR Convergence 2025
Sjögren’s Disease Salivary Gland Fibroblast Subsets are Proinflammatory and Aberrantly Promote Pain
Sara McCoy¹, Rachael Bogle², michele larsen³, Li Chen⁴, thomas pranzatelli⁵, Paola Perez⁶, john chiorini⁷, Alan Baer⁸, A. Darise Farris⁹, Christopher Lessard⁹, Astrid Rasmussen⁹, Caroline Shiboski¹⁰, Stephen Shiboski¹⁰, Alexander Mikesell³, Zachary Campbell³, Alex Tsoi², Johann Gudjonsson¹¹ and Blake M. Warner¹², ¹University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, ²University of Michigan, Holland, OH, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, ⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ⁵NIH, Bethesda, ⁶NIDCR, Bethesda, MD, ⁷NIH, bethesda, MD, ⁸Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁰University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Fibroblasts (fb) are increasingly recognized as dynamic signaling hubs in rheumatic disease, yet their contribution to Sjögren Disease (SjD) remains poorly defined. We dissect…
Abstract Number: 1560 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal assessment of circulating fibroblast activation protein in systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease
Bo Broens¹, Conny van der Laken¹, Iris Simons¹, Tamara Dekker¹, Jan Willem Duitman¹ and Alexandre Voskuijl², ¹Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) is difficult to manage due to the heterogeneous disease course. There is a high need for biomarkers to…
Abstract Number: 0940 • ACR Convergence 2025
Resident Macrophages Localize Near Fibroblasts and Drive Reprogramming in Lupus Nephritis Through Direct and Soluble Signaling
Chirag Raparia¹, Paul Hoover², Arnon Arazi³, Nir Hacohen⁴ and Anne Davidson¹, ¹Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Acton, MA, ⁴Broad Institute of MIT Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe manifestation of SLE that can progress to renal fibrosis, and eventual renal failure. In LN, tubulointerstitial inflammation and…
Abstract Number: 0851 • ACR Convergence 2025
Urinary Tenascin C Predicts Kidney Function Loss in Lupus Nephritis
CHEN-YU LEE¹, Sepehr Taghavi², Shangzhu Zhang³, Roopa Madhu⁴, Jasmine Shwetar⁵, Tyler O'Malley⁶, Daniel Goldman⁷, Peter Izmirly⁸, H Michael Belmont⁹, Richard Furie¹⁰, Noa Schwartz¹¹, Chaim Putterman¹², Jennifer Barnas¹³, Jennifer Anolik¹⁴, Sarah French¹⁵, Maria Dall'Era¹⁶, Judith James¹⁷, Joel Guthridge¹⁷, Jacob Vasquez¹⁸, Mike Nerenberg¹⁹, Andrew Concoff²⁰, Christine Schleif²¹, Kevin Wei²², Thomas Eisenhaure²³, Nir Hacohen²³, Rachael Bogle²⁴, Johann Gudjonsson²⁵, Lam Tsoi²⁵, Brad Rovin²⁶, Jill Buyon²⁷, Michelle Petri⁷ and Andrea Fava¹, ¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Exagen Inc, Escondido, CA, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China (People's Republic), ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brookline, MA, ⁵New York School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Exagen, Vista, CA, ⁷Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Timonium, MD, ⁸New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ¹⁰Division of Rheumatology, Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Safed, Israel, ¹³University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ¹⁴University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ¹⁵UCSF, Mill Valley, CA, ¹⁶Division of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ¹⁷Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁸Exagen, Inc., Vista, CA, ¹⁹Exagen, DEL MAR, CA, ²⁰Specialty Networks/United Rheumatology, a Cardinal Health Company, N/A, ²¹Exagen, Carlsbad, CA, ²²Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²³Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ²⁴University of Michigan, Holland, OH, ²⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²⁶The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ²⁷NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Kidney survival is the ultimate treatment goal in lupus nephritis (LN), but long-term predictors remain understudied due to the need for extensive follow up.…
Abstract Number: 2502 • ACR Convergence 2025
Deciphering Systemic Sclerosis Phenotypes: A Novel Approach Using Clustering Algorithms and Proteomic Insights. Results from the PRECISESADS Study
Santiago Dans Caballero¹, Rafaela Ortega-Castro², Chary López pedrera³, Alejandro Escudero⁴, Beatriz Vellón-García⁵, Carlos Pérez Sánchez⁶ and Clementina López Medina⁷, ¹Reina Sofia University Hospital, Lebrija, Andalucia, Spain, ²Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Andalucia, Spain, ³Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain, Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/University of Cordoba/ Reina Sofia University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain/Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Maimonides Institute of Biomedical Research of Cordoba (IMIBIC), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁶Rheumatology service/Maimonides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/ Reina Sofia University Hospital/ University of Cordoba, Spain/ CobiomicBioscience S.l, Cordoba, Spain, Cordoba, Spain, ⁷Department of Medicine, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia, University of Cordoba, IMIBIC, Cordoba, Spain
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a clinically and biologically heterogeneous autoimmune disease characterized by multiorgan involvement, substantial morbidity, and high mortality. Traditional classification systems (based…
Abstract Number: 0810 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Transcriptomic-based Phenotyping of the Fibroblast Niches in Systemic Sclerosis-associated Primary Heart Involvement
Alexandru Micu¹, Alexandru-Emil Matei², Yi-Nan Li³, Ann-Christin Pecher⁴, Tim Filla⁵, Jörg Henes⁶, Markus Eckstein⁷, Karin Klingel⁸, Jörg Distler⁹ and Andrea-Hermina Györfi¹⁰, ¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ³University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine II, Hematology, Oncology, Clinical Immunology, and Rheumatology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine II, Hematology, Oncology, Clinical Immunology, and Rheumatology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁷Institute of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center EMN, Friedrich-Alexander- Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Uniklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Cardiopathology, Institute for Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, ⁹University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated primary heart involvement (SSc-pHI) is one of the leading causes of mortality in SSc, yet its underlying cellular and molecular pathomechanisms…
Abstract Number: 2231 • ACR Convergence 2025
Inverse Correlation Between Neutrophil Activation and Rheumatoid Factor Concentrations in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Anne-Christine Bay-Jensen¹, Dovile Sinkeviciute², Christian Thudium², shu Sun¹, Mathilde Christensen¹, Morten Karsdal¹, marta Alexdottir¹ and Joachim mortensen¹, ¹Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev, Denmark, ²Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Neutrophils are crucial in fibro-inflammatory diseases like Crohn's disease (CD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but their biomarkers are better established in CD than in…
Abstract Number: 0809 • ACR Convergence 2025
Human blood vessel organoids as a model of vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis
Yanhua Xiao¹, Xuezhi Hong¹, Langxian Zhi¹, Yi-Nan Li², Martin Regensburger³, Franz Marxreiter⁴, Boris Görg⁵, Sarah Koziel⁶, Andrea-Hermina Györfi⁷, Tim Filla⁸, Peter-Martin Bruch⁶, Philipp Tripal⁹, James Adjaye¹⁰, Sascha Dietrich¹¹, Jürgen Winkler⁴, Jörg Distler¹² and Alexandru-Emil Matei¹³, ¹Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, ²University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ³Department of Stem Cell Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Department of Molecular Neurology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, ⁶University Hospital Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University., Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁹University Hospital Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, ¹⁰Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse ⁵, D-⁴⁰²²⁵ Duesseldorf, Germany, Dusseldorf, Germany, ¹¹Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹²University Hospital Duesseldorf and HHU, Duesseldorf, Germany, ¹³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence for Immune Mediated Diseases CIMD, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: While several pathogenic processes involved in vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis (SSc) have been described1-3, the mechanisms that underlie the SSc microvasculopathy remain incompletely understood.…
Abstract Number: 1876 • ACR Convergence 2025
Targeting the NK cell checkpoint NKG2A promotes lung fibrosis resolution by enhancing immune clearance of senescent myofibroblasts
Wolfgang Merkt¹, Lea Rodon², Franca Sophie Deicher³, Maren Claus⁴, Rachel Lister⁵, Hongwei Han⁵, Yan Zhou⁵, Zhengwang Sun⁵, Arik Horne⁶, Ayla Nadja Stuetz⁷, Michael Kreuter⁸, nicolas kahn⁹, Marc Schneider⁹, Simon Haas¹⁰, Norbert Blank¹¹, Hanns-Martin Lorenz¹², Carsten Watzl⁴, Daniel Hübschmann¹³ and David Lagares⁵, ¹University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ²University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Hungary, ³Uniklinik Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, ⁴IfADo, Leibniz Institute Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, ⁶Charite, Berlin, Berlin, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University. Hiller Research Center, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, ⁸Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, ⁹Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, ¹⁰Charite, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ¹²Universitétsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ¹³Heidelberg University, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: A key event driving pulmonary fibrosis in interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the accumulation of pathologic senescent myofibroblasts, thought to be promoted by insufficient…

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