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  • Abstract Number: 324 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Regulation of TNF-α-Mediated Activation of Rheumatoid Synovial Fibroblasts By Transcription Factor Snail

    Chrong-Reen Wang1,2, Shih-Yao Chen3, Ai-Li Shiau4, I-Ming Jou5,6, Ming-Fei Liu1,2 and Chao-Liang Wu3, 1Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, 2Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, 3Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, 4Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, 5Orthopedics, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, 6Orthopedics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

    Background/Purpose: Transcription factor Snail plays active roles in various biological functions and is involved in many disease states. We hypothesized that this molecule regulates TNF-α-mediated…
  • Abstract Number: 1710 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Endothelin-1 Is a Downstream Mediator of Profibrotic Effects by Transforming Growth Factor-β1 in Systemic Sclerosis Skin Fibroblasts

    Tomoaki Higuchi1, Yasushi Kawaguchi1, Akiko Tochimoto1, Yuko Ota2, Yasuhiro Katsumata1, Takahisa Gono1, Masanori Hanaoka1, Yuko Okamoto1, Hidenaga Kawasumi1 and Hisashi Yamanaka3, 1Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, 210-22 Kawada-Cha Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, 3Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

    Background/Purpose Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder characterized by excess collagen deposition, vascular changes and production of autoantibodies that affects multiple organs.…
  • Abstract Number: 1704 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    CXCL4 Promotes Fibrosis By Increasing Expression of Extracellular Matrix Modifying Factors and By Facilitating Epithelial/Endothelial Mesenchymal Transition

    W. Marut1, A.J. Affandi1, A. Limpers1 and T.R.D.J. Radstake2, 1Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2Department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a degenerative disorder, characterized by vascular abnormalities and immunological disturbances followed by excessive fibrosis in multiple organ systems. In a…
  • Abstract Number: 1462 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Cadherin-11 mRNA Expression in the Peripheral Blood of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients As a Marker of Active Polyarthritis

    Petros P. Sfikakis1, Panagiotis F. Christopoulos1,2, Aristeidis G. Vaiopoulos1,2, Kalliopi Fragkiadaki1, Christina Katsiari3, Violetta Kapsimali4, George Lallas1, Panayiotis Panayiotidis4, Pinelopi Korkopoulou5 and Michael Koutsilieris2, 1First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 2Department of Physiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 3Department of Rheumatology, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, 4Department of Microbiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 5Department of Pathology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Background/Purpose: Human rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts (RASF) implanted subcutaneously in immunodeficient mice trans-migrate through the vasculature and drive the progression from oligo- to poly-articular disease.…
  • Abstract Number: 2919 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The Novel Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Risk Gene, LBH, Is Regulated By TGFß and PDGF and Modulates Cell Growth in Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes

    Anna-Karin Ekwall1, Deepa Hammaker2, John W. Whitaker3, William Bugbee4, Wei Wang5 and Gary S. Firestein6, 1Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 3860 island ave, UCSD, San Diego, CA, 4Orthopaedics, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA, 5Chemistry, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, 6Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

    Background/Purpose: RA fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) display an aggressive phenotype, such as increased cytokine production and cell growth. Currently no therapeutics specifically target FLS. To this…
  • Abstract Number: 1027 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Hematopoietic Cell Kinase (HCK) As a Novel Regulator of Fibroblast-like Synoviocyte Function in RA

    Ying Wang1, Deepa Hammaker2, David L. Boyle3, Toshio Yoshizawa4 and Gary S. Firestein3, 1Medicine, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, 2Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 3Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, 4Exploratory Research Laboratories 1, Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan

    Background/Purpose: Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) are key mediators of inflammation and joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) through the production of cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)…
  • Abstract Number: 2816 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Distinctive DNA Methylome Signatures in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Synoviocytes Compared with Longstanding (RA) and Other Inflammatory Arthritides

    Rizi Ai1, John W. Whitaker2, David L. Boyle3, Paul Peter Tak4, Danielle M. Gerlag5, Wei Wang6 and Gary S. Firestein3, 1Chemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2860 island ave, UCSD, San Diego, CA, 3Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, 4Academic Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology & GlaxoSmithKline, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6Chemistry, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

    Background/Purpose:   Epigenetics influences pathogenic mechanisms in autoimmunity. Recently, a stable RA DNA methylation signature in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) was defined in 2375 genes. The…
  • Abstract Number: 1038 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Macrophage-Fibroblast Crosstalk Pathways Amplify RA Joint Pathology

    Laura T. Donlin1, Jennifer Ding1 and Lionel B. Ivashkiv1,2, 1Arthritis and Tissue Degeneration Program and the David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, 2Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY

    Background/Purpose Macrophages and synovial fibroblasts represent key cellular drivers of RA. The goal of this study was to define how the complex cellular programs of…
  • Abstract Number: 2817 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Histone Deacetylase One Contributes to the Auto-Aggressive Phenotype of Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Sarah Hawtree1, Munitta Muthana1, J. Mark Wilkinson2, Anthony G. Wilson1 and Mohammed Akil3, 1Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3Rheumatology Department, Sheffield South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune, inflammatory disease that affects synovial joints. A key characteristic of RA is hyperplasia of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS)…
  • Abstract Number: 1022 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Fibroblast-like Synovial Cells and Monocytes Team up in the Organization and the Dynamic Modelling of the Synovial Tissue

    Ruth Byrne1, Karolina von Dalwigk2, Thomas Karonitsch1, Gunter Steiner3, Johannes Holinka4, Reinhard Windhager4, Josef Smolen5, Hans Peter Kiener1 and Clemens Scheinecker6, 1Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2Department of Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3Internal Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4Department of Orthopaedics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 5Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 6Divison of Rheumatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Background/Purpose The synovial lining tissue consists of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) and monocyte-derived macrophage-like synoviocytes (MLS) within a self-built meshwork of dense extracellular matrix (ECM) components.…
  • Abstract Number: 2818 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    SH2 Domain-Containing Phosphatase 2 Promotes Aggressiveness of Rheumatoid Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes

    Stephanie M. Stanford1, German R. Aleman Muench1, Cristiano Sacchetti1, Lifan Zeng2, David L. Boyle3, Gen-Sheng Feng4, Zhong-Yin Zhang2, Maripat Corr3, Gary S. Firestein3 and Nunzio Bottini1, 1Cellular Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 2Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 3Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, 4Pathology, University of California at San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla, CA

    Background/Purpose In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) that line joint synovial membranes aggressively invade the extracellular matrix, destroying cartilage and bone. Although this cell…
  • Abstract Number: 994 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    IL-7 Modulates B Cell Immunoglobulin Isotype Production and Increases B Cell Activating Factor of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Family (BAFF) in Synovial Fibroblasts from Osteoarthritis (OA) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients

    Georg Pongratz1, Stephan Kuhn2, Madlen Melzer2, Torsten Lowin2 and Rainer Straub3, 1Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, 2University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, 3Internal Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Background/Purpose Interleukin(IL)-7 is increased in synovial fluid from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients as compared to osteoarthritis (OA) patients and has been attributed a proinflammatory role,…
  • Abstract Number: 2785 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Joint Specific Positional Differences in Coding and Noncoding Transcriptome of Synovial Fibroblasts As a Determinant of the Susceptibility of Synovial Joints to Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Caroline Ospelt1, Maria Armaka2, Giancarlo Russo3, Anna Bratus3, Michelle Trenkmann4, Emmanuel Karouzakis1, Christoph Kolling5, Renate E. Gay4, George Kollias6, Steffen Gay1 and Mojca Frank Bertoncelj1, 1Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2Institute of Immunology,, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, 3Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Zurich University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, 5Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland, 6Institute of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece

    Background/Purpose The molecular mechanisms underlying the topographic differences in the susceptibility of synovial joints to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are unknown. Positional embryonic expression of…
  • Abstract Number: 968 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Priming of WNT Signalling during Fibrosis Is Mediated By TGF-β Induced Axin-2 Downregulation

    Justin Gillespie1, Emma C. Derrett-Smith2, Michael McDermott1, Paul Emery3, Christopher P Denton4 and Francesco Del Galdo3, 1Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases,, UCL Medical School Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom, 3Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom, 4Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Disease, UCL Medical School Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom

    Background/Purpose Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by autoimmune activation, vasculopathy and tissue fibrosis. Recently, activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in SSc fibroblasts has been…
  • Abstract Number: 2709 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Could a Fibroblast-Free Environment Protect the Microcirculation in Systemic Sclerosis? Evidence from Retinal Vascular Imaging Research

    Evaggelia K. Aissopou1, Vasiliki-Kalliopi Bournia1, Athanase D. Protogerou1, Stylianos Panopoulos1, Theodore G. Papaioannou2, Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos1, Marco Matucci-Cerinic3 and Petros P. Sfikakis1, 1First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 2Biomedical Engineering Unit, First University Dept. of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital , Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece, 3Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Background/Purpose: A primary endothelial cell dysfunction is thought to be involved in systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated fibroproliferative vasculopathy of the microcirculation and small arterioles, even in…
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