Abstracts tagged "fibrosis"

Abstract Number: 1860 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Activating Transcription Factor 3 – a New Linkage Between Vasculopathy and Organ Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis
Thomas Wohlfahrt¹, Alina Soare², Tatjana Mallano², Morgane Gourlaouen³, Stephen Moss³, Britta Maurer⁴, Oliver Distler⁴, Tsonwin Hai⁵, Georg Schett², Jörg Distler² and Andreas Ramming², ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³Institute of Ophthalmology, Department of Cell Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁵Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Colombus, OH
Background/Purpose: Since vascular manifestations such as Raynaud’s phenomenon and morphological changes on nailfold capillaroscopy often precede the onset of other clinical manifestations of systemic sclerosis…
Abstract Number: 1365 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Innate Lymphoid Cells. New Players in Systemic Sclerosis Correlate with Extent of Skin and Lung Fibrosis
Thomas Wohlfahrt¹, Stefanie Weber¹, Matthias Englbrecht², Clara Dees³, Christian Beyer³, Oliver Distler⁴, Georg Schett¹, Jorg HW Distler^1,3 and Andreas Ramming¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3, Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁴Research of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), are recently identified as population of cells with lymphoid morphology lacking re-arranged antigen-specific receptors. Although findings in animal…
Abstract Number: 3008 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Role of PTP4A1 Tyrosine Phosphatase in Systemic Sclerosis
Cristiano Sacchetti¹, Stephanie Stanford², Yunpeng Bai³, Zhong-Yin Zhang⁴, Amin Gholami⁵, Gregory Seumois⁶, Maria Piera-Velazquez⁷, Sergio A. Jimenez⁸ and Nunzio Bottini¹, ¹Cellular Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, ²Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, ³Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁵Bioinformatics Core, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and immunology, La Jolla, CA, ⁶Sequencing Facility, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and immunology, La Jolla, CA, ⁷Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Div Connective Tissue Diseases, Thomas Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multi-system autoimmune connective tissue disorder that leads to fibrosis of the skin and internal organs, resulting in significant patient…
Abstract Number: 1886 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Myocardial Fibrosis Detected By Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is a Predictor of Heart Failure in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) Patients
Tatiana Sofia Rodriguez-Reyna¹, Martha Morelos-Guzmán², Pamela Mercado Velazquez³, Pablo Henrandez-Reyes⁴, Karla Montero-Duarte⁵, Cynthia Martinez-Reyes⁶, Carlos Reyes-Utrera⁶ and Carlos Nunez Alvarez³, ¹Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Radiology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ³Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico, Mexico, ⁴Department of Cardiology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁵Department of Imaging and Radiology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: In previous studies we showed that prevalence of myocardial fibrosis in SSc patients is 45% and is associated to diffuse disease (dcSSc) and lower…
Abstract Number: 3010 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Estrogens Inhibit the Profibrotic Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta and Protect from the Development of Experimental Dermal Fibrosis
Jerome Avouac¹, Léa Baudoin², Anne Cauvet², Barbara Ruiz² and Yannick Allanore³, ¹Rheumatology A department and INSERM U1016, Paris Descartes University, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ²INSERM U1016, Paris Descartes University, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France, ³Paris Descartes University, Rheumatology A department, Cochin Hospital, And Eular Scleroderma Trials And Research (EUSTAR) Board, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) primarily affects postmenopausal women. This sex bias could partly be explained by the action of estrogens on the immune system and/or…
Abstract Number: 1888 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
There Is a Need for New Systemic Sclerosis Subset Criteria: A Content Analytic Approach
Sindhu Johnson¹, Medha Soowamber², Jaap Fransen³, Dinesh Khanna⁴, Frank H.J. van den Hoogen⁵, Murray Baron⁶, Marco Matucci Cerinic⁷, Christopher P. Denton⁸, Thomas A. Medsger Jr.⁹, Patricia E. Carreira¹⁰, Gabriela Riemekasten¹¹, Jorg HW. Distler¹², Armando Gabrielli¹³, Virginia D. Steen¹⁴, Lorinda Chung¹⁵, Richard Silver¹⁶, John Varga¹⁷, Ulf Müller-Ladner¹⁸, Madelon C. Vonk¹⁹, Ulrich A. Walker²⁰, Frank Wollheim²¹, Ariane L. Herrick²², Daniel E. Furst²³, Lazlo Czirjak²⁴, Otylia Kowal-Bielecka²⁵, Francesco Del Galdo²⁶, Maurizio Cutolo²⁷, Nicolas Hunzelmann²⁸, Charles Murray²⁹, Ivan Foeldvari³⁰, Luc Mouthon³¹, Nemanja Damjanov³², Bashar Kahaleh³³, Tracy M. Frech³⁴, Shervin Assassi³⁵, Lesley Ann Saketkoo³⁶ and Janet E. Pope³⁷, ¹Toronto Scleroderma Program, Toronto Western Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, University Health Network Pulmonary Hypertension Programme, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Rheumatology, University of Toronto/ Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁴Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Rheumatology, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁶Pavillion A, Rm 216, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁷Department of BioMedicine, Division of Rheumatology, Transition Unit, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy, ⁸Centre for Rheumatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁹Medicine/Rheumatology, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, ¹¹Rheumatology, Human medicine, BERLIN, Germany, ¹²Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ¹³Clinica Medica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, ¹⁴Rheumatology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, ¹⁵Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹⁶Div Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁷Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ¹⁸Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Rheumatology, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ²⁰Rheumatology, Systemic Sclerosis, Basel, Switzerland, ²¹Rheumatology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, ²²Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²³Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²⁴University of Pécs Medical Center, Pécs, Hungary, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, ²⁶University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²⁷Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, ²⁸Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, ²⁹Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³⁰Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany, ³¹Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cochin Hospital, Referent Center for Necrotizing Vasculitis and Systemic Sclerosis, Paris-Descartes University, AP-HP, Paris, France, ³²Resavska 69, Institute of Rheumatology, Belgrade, Serbia, ³³Medicine/Rheumatology, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, ³⁴Div of Rheumatology, University of Utah Medical Ctr, Salt Lake City, UT, ³⁵Rheumatology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, ³⁶Tulane University Lung Center, New Orleans Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, New Orleans, LA, ³⁷University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a family of diseases unified by the presence of immune activation, vasculopathy and fibrosis. The concept of SSc subsets cannot…
Abstract Number: 3012 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Over-Expression of Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidases in Systemic Sclerosis Fibroblasts Increases Responses to TGF-Beta
Christine Galant, Joëlle Marchandise, Julie Ducreux, Maria Stoenoiu, Frédéric A. Houssiau and Bernard R. Lauwerys, Pôle de pathologies rhumatismales inflammatoires et systémiques, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Background/Purpose: Ubiquitination of proteins leads to their degradation by the proteasome, and is regulated by a small number of ubiquitin ligases, and a large number…
Abstract Number: 1892 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging with T1 Mapping and Multi-b Value Diffusion-Weighted Sequences in Systemic Sclerosis for the Assessment of Myocardial Microscopic Fibrosis and Perfusion
Benjamin Terrier¹, Hervé Gouya², Alice Berezne¹, Alexis Regent³, Pascal Cohen¹, Loïc Guillevin⁴, Claire Le Jeunne⁵, Paul Legmann², Olivier Vignaux⁶ and Luc Mouthon⁷, ¹Internal Medicine, National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ²AP-HP Cochin Hospital, Department of Radiology B, Paris, France, ³Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ⁴Internal Medicine, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Hotel-Dieu Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, Paris, France, ⁶Radiology, Cochin University Hospital, Paris, France, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cochin Hospital, Referent Center for Necrotizing Vasculitis and Systemic Sclerosis, Paris-Descartes University, AP-HP, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex disease associating vasculopathy, cutaneous and visceral fibrosis, and autoimmunity. Myocardial microscopic fibrosis may occur and potentially lead to…
Abstract Number: 3013 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Adipose Loss of Co-Repressor Ncor Attenuates Bleomycin-Induced Skin Fibrosis By Enhancing PPAR-Gamma Signaling
Benjamin Korman¹, Roberta Goncalves Marangoni¹, Warren Tourtellotte² and John Varga³, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Pathology, Ward, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: The adipogenesis master regulator PPAR-gamma (PPARg) is regulated by repressors such as NCoR. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with impaired PPARg expression and function…
Abstract Number: 1907 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) Reduces Dermal Fibrosis By Interfering with the Release of Pro-Fibrotic Cytokines from M2-Macrophages
Christiane Maier, Christian Beyer, Jeorg HW Distler and Georg Schett, Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: PDE4 catalyses the breakdown of the second messengers cAMP and cGMP to modulate intracellular effects. PDE4 is mainly expressed in inflammatory cells, and its…
Abstract Number: 1918 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pharmacologic Targeting of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis: Enhanced SIRT3 Signaling
Kaname Akamata¹, Mitra Bhattacharyya¹, Mahesh Gupta², Jack Arbiser³, David Kamp⁴, Jun Wei¹ and John Varga¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²University of Chicago, Departments of Surgery, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine Winship Cancer Institute Atlanta Veterans Administration Health Center, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Recent evidences suggest that cytosolic and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS), play pivotal roles in modulating TGF-β-induced profibrotic responses and are implicated in pathogenesis…
Abstract Number: 1919 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genetic Deletion of Toll-like Receptor 4 (Tlr4) Abrogates TGF-β1-Induced Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EndoMT) in Murine Pulmonary Endothelial Cells
Peter J. Wermuth¹ and Sergio A. Jimenez², ¹Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Division of Connective Tissue Diseases and Scleroderma Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Division of Connective Tissue Diseases and Scleroderma Center,Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease of unknown etiology whose pathogenesis involves the regulation of a diverse range of molecular pathways. The…
Abstract Number: 1925 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Interleukin-35 Is Upregulated in Systemic Sclerosis and Its Serum Levels Are Increased in Early Disease
Michal Tomcík¹, Pawel Zerr², Katrin Palumbo-Zerr², Hana Storkanova¹, Hana Hulejova³, Maja Spiritovic⁴, Ondrej Kodet⁵, Jiri Stork⁵, Radim Becvar¹, Jiri Vencovsky¹, Karel Pavelka⁶, Maria Filkova⁷, Jorg HW Distler² and Ladislav Senolt⁸, ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ³Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁵Department of Dermatology and Venereology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁶Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁷Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁸Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Background/Purpose: Interleukin-35 (IL-35) is the most recent addition to the IL-12 family, which also comprises IL-12, IL-23 and IL-27. IL-35 consists of two chains, p35/IL-12a…
Abstract Number: 1926 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Wnt5a Activates Wnt/PCP-Signaling to Promote Fibroblast Activation and Fibrosis
Chih-Wei Chen¹, Neng-Yu Lin¹, Yun Zhang¹, Jingang Huang¹, Katrin Palumbo-Zerr¹, Alexandra Schambony², Christian Beyer¹, Georg Schett¹ and Jeorg HW Distler¹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Biology, Development Biology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: While canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling has been identified as a core pathway of fibrosis in SSc, non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways have not yet been analyzed.…
Abstract Number: 1927 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Salinomycin Induces Potent Suppression of TGF-β1-Mediated Expression of Profibrotic Genes in Cultured Dermal Fibroblasts from Normal Donors and from Donors with Systemic Sclerosis (SSc): A Novel Anti-Fibrotic Treatment for Tissue Fibrosis in SSc
Peter J. Wermuth¹ and Sergio A. Jimenez², ¹Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Division of Connective Tissue Diseases and Scleroderma Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Division of Connective Tissue Diseases and Scleroderma Center,Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Activated myofibroblasts are the primary mediators of the excessive synthesis and deposition of collagens and other extracellular matrix (ECM) macromolecules during the pathogenesis of…

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