Abstracts tagged "immunology"

Abstract Number: 1506 • ACR Convergence 2020
Correction of Sjögren’s Syndrome Fluid Secretion Deficits in Salivary Gland Acinar Cells by Aquaporin-1 Gene Transfer
Paola Perez¹, Blake Warner², Sandra Wainer¹, Youngmi Ji¹, Thomas Pranzatelli¹ and Jay Chiorini¹, ¹Nidcr, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda
Background/Purpose: The hallmark clinical complaints in Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) are dry mouth and dry eyes related to salivary and lacrimal glands dysfunction. Reduced salivation reflects…
Abstract Number: 1857 • ACR Convergence 2020
KIR3DL2 Is Not Overexpressed on CD4+ T Cells and NK Cells in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis csDMARD and bDMARD Naive
Guillaume Larid¹, Sophie Trijau¹, Clothilde Barral¹, Pierre Lafforgue¹ and Thao Pham², ¹Aix Marseille Univ, APHM, Rheumatology department, Marseille, France, ²Aix Marseille Univ, APHM, department of rheumatology, Marseille, France
Background/Purpose: Overexpression of KIR3DL2 on CD4+ T-cells and NK-cells has been reported in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) HLAB27+. We aimed to 1) analyse KIR3DL2…
Abstract Number: 0299 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Minor Protective Allele at rs1876453 Is Associated with Increased Age of Onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ani Oganesyan¹, Jennifer Kelly², Stuart Glenn², Adam Adler², Adrienne Williams³, Mary Comeau⁴, Julia Ziegler⁵, Miranda Marion⁵, Marta Alarcón-Riquelme⁶, Graciela Alarcón⁷, Juan-Manuel Anaya⁸, Sang-Cheol Bae⁹, Dam Kim⁹, Lee Hye-Soon⁹, Lindsey Criswell¹⁰, Barry Freedman¹¹, Gary Gilkeson¹², Joel Guthridge¹³, Chaim Jacob¹⁴, Judith James¹⁵, Diane Kamen¹⁶, Joan Merrill¹⁷, Kathy Moser Silvis¹⁸, Timothy Niewold¹⁹, Michelle Petri²⁰, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman²¹, John Reveille²², Hal Scofield²³, Anne Stevens²⁴, Luis Vilá²⁵, Timothy Vyse²⁶, Kenneth Kaufman²⁷, John Harley²⁸, Carl Langefeld⁵, Patrick Gaffney², Elizabeth Brown²⁹, Jeffrey Edberg⁷, Robert Kimberly⁷, Betty Tsao¹², Daniela Ulgiati³⁰, Kenneth Jones³¹ and Susan Boackle³², ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ²Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Department of Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem,, NC, ⁴Department of Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest School of Medicine; MC Analytics, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁵Department of Biostatistical Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁶Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Centro Pfizer-Universidad de Granada-Junta de Andalucía de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Granada (GENYO), Granada, Spain, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁸Center for Autoimmune Diseases Research (CREA), Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, ⁹Department of Rheumatology, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, Republic of Korea, ¹⁰Rosalind Russell/Ephraim P. Engleman Rheumatology Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ¹¹Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem,, NC, ¹²Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹³Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oaklahoma, OK, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ¹⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center;Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Edmond, OK, ¹⁶Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁷Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁸Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁹Colton Center for Autoimmunity, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²⁰Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, ²¹Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²²Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, TX, ²³Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SD, ²⁴Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Spring House, PA, ²⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ²⁶Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine and Immunology, King’s College, London, United Kingdom, ²⁷Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center;US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²⁸Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Univ of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ²⁹Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³⁰School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, ³¹Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK, ³²Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically heterogenous autoimmune disease characterized by autoantibody- and complement-mediated inflammatory damage to multiple organ systems. We previously showed…
Abstract Number: 0778 • ACR Convergence 2020
Bacterial Families Lachnospiraceae/Ruminococcaceae Are Immunologically Targeted in Individuals At-risk for RA and a Specific Strain Is Arthritogenic in Monocultured Gnotobiotic Mice
Meagan Chriswell¹, Jennifer Seifert², Lisa Blum³, Michelle Bloom³, Marie Feser⁴, M Kristen Demoruelle⁵, Jill Norris⁶, Kevin D. Deane⁷, Eddie James⁸, Jane Buckner⁸, William Robinson³, V. Michael Holers⁵ and Kristine Kuhn⁹, ¹UC Denver SOM, Denver, CO, ²UC Denver, Littleton, CO, ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA, Colorado, ⁵University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁶Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, ⁷2 Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA, Colorado, ⁸Center for Translational Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, ⁹University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Circulating autoantibodies, including anti-CCP and RF, develop years before physical manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with several lines of evidence suggesting that these autoantibodies…
Abstract Number: 1532 • ACR Convergence 2020
The Non-psychotropic Phytocannabinoids Cannabigerol and Tetrahydrocannabinolic Acid Inhibit Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblast Function by Targeting the Wasabi Receptor TRPA1
Torsten Lowin¹, Matthias Schneider² and Georg Pongratz³, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit Rheumatology, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, Düsseldorf, Germany, ²Department of Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit Rheumatology, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, Duesseldorf, Germany, ³Department of Rheumatology and Hiller Research Unit Rheumatology, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, D�sseldorf, Germany
Background/Purpose: While medical cannabis is available for german patients since 2017, its use to alleviate symptoms of rheumatic diseases is not recommended due to a…
Abstract Number: 1858 • ACR Convergence 2020
Increased Proportion of TH17, TH22 and TC17 Cells and the Correlation to IL-22 and Clinical Parameters in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis from Northern Sweden
Kristina Lejon¹, Urban Hellman², Lan Do², Anjani Kumar² and Helena Forsblad-d'Elia³, ¹Department of Clinical microbiology, Infection and Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, ²Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Rheumatology, Umeå, Sweden, ³Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine/Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Vasterbottens Lan, Sweden
Background/Purpose: Increased levels of TH17 and TH22 as well as TC17 and TC22 cells have previously been associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The correlation between…
Abstract Number: 0303 • ACR Convergence 2020
SLE Patients Stratify into Distinct Clusters Based on Their Peripheral Blood Immunologic Phenotype During Acute Flare
Kieran Manion¹, Carolina Munoz-Grajales², Michael Kim³, Kirubel Goliad⁴, Dennisse Bonilla⁵, Dafna Gladman¹, Murray Urowitz⁶, Zahi Touma⁷ and Joan Wither⁵, ¹Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto-UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Krembil Research Insitute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto-UHN, Toronto, Canada, ⁵University of Toronto Lupus Clinic, Centre for Prognosis Studies in Rheumatic Diseases, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: SLE is a chronic autoimmune disease in which periods of quiescence are interspersed with acute flares of disease activity that produce much of the…
Abstract Number: 0794 • ACR Convergence 2020
Peripheral Blood T and B Lymphocyte Subsets in Arthritis in the Elderly
Aina Teniente-Serra¹, Lourdes Mateo², Agueda Prior³, Monica Guma⁴, Eva Martinez-Caceres¹ and Melania Martinez-Morillo⁵, ¹Department of Immunology, Germans Trias i Pujol. University Hospital, Badalona, Badalona, ²Department of Rheumatology, Germans Trias i Pujol. University Hospital, Badalona, Badalona, ³Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Diego, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, La Jolla, CA, ⁵Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Multiple lymphocyte subsets like T and B cells have been connected to joint infiltration and inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Identification of leucocyte subsets…
Abstract Number: 1567 • ACR Convergence 2020
Association of Blood Count Biomarkers and Clinical Features with Immune Related Adverse Events (irAEs) in Patients with Cancer Treated with Checkpoint Inhibitors (CPI)
Despina Michailidou¹, Ali R Khaki², Guangyu Wang³, Leonidas Diamantopoulos² and Petros Grivas², ¹Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Division of Oncology, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Patients with cancer treated with CPI can develop irAEs. Since immune changes may impact blood counts and ratios, we hypothesized that those would be…
Abstract Number: 1861 • ACR Convergence 2020
T Cells with IL-17A+ Signature in Psoriatic Arthritis Are of Different Subpopulations and Are Polyfuntional
Siba Raychaudhuri¹ and Smriti Raychaudhuri², ¹Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Clinical Immunology, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, and VA Medical Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, ²VA Sacramento Medical Center, Davis, CA
Background/Purpose: A variety of T cells such as Th1, Th2, Th9, Th17, NKT, MAIT, etc have been attributed to multiple autoimmune diseases. In psoriatic arthritis…
Abstract Number: 0449 • ACR Convergence 2020
Cytotoxic T Cells with a Chronic Antigen Exposure Phenotype Drive Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Sicca
Blake Warner¹, Billel Gasmi², David Kleiner³, Paola Perez Riveros⁴, Daniel Barber⁵, Shunsuke Sakai⁵ and Alan Baer⁶, ¹National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, ²National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, ³National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, ⁴National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, MD, ⁵National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, MD, ⁶Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have advanced the field of cancer therapeutics. By blocking the negative co-stimulation of T cells, ICI augment the anti-tumor immune…
Abstract Number: 0843 • ACR Convergence 2020
Rab4A Activation Predisposes to Hepatitis in Spontaneous and Pristane-Induced Mouse Models of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Nick Huang¹, Akshay Patel¹, Zachary Oaks¹ and Andras Perl¹, ¹SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: HRES-1/Rab4 or Rab4A, a GTPase responsible for mitochondrial oxidative stress1 and activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin2, is overexpressed in T cells of…
Abstract Number: 1568 • ACR Convergence 2020
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on a Cohort of Patients with Rheumatic Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Registry Survey Study
Nilasha Ghosh¹, Aidan Tirpack², Caroline Benson³, Gregory Vitone³, Karmela Kim Chan² and Anne Bass¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ³Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Background/Purpose: It is not known whether cancer patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) and/or immunosuppression are more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 or more apt…
Abstract Number: 1996 • ACR Convergence 2020
Evaluation of Response to Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Upadacitinib: Results from a Phase 2 Open-Label Extension Study
Kevin Winthrop¹, Juan Vargas², Edit Drescher³, Conrado Garcia⁴, Alan Friedman⁵, Jeffrey Enejosa⁵, Nasser Khan⁵, Yihan Li⁵, Justin Klaff⁵ and Alan Kivitz⁶, ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ²Quantum Research, Puerto Varas, Chile, ³Veszprém Csolnoky Ferenc County Hospital, Veszprém, Hungary, ⁴Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Mexico, Mexico, ⁵AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁶Altoona Center for Clinical Research/Altoona Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center, Duncansville, PA
Background/Purpose: Pneumococcal vaccination is recommended in patients with RA who are receiving conventional synthetic/biologic DMARDs.1 Upadacitinib (UPA) is an oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor engineered to…
Abstract Number: 0450 • ACR Convergence 2020
In Vitro Characterization of Inflammatory Arthritis Associated with Immune Check Point Inhibition
Anne Sofie Sørensen¹, Morten Nørgaard Andersen¹, Kristian Juul-Madsen², Cæcilie Deisting Skejø¹, Henrik Schmidt¹, Thomas Vorup-Jensen¹ and Tue Wenzel Kragstrup¹, ¹Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²Aarhus University, Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark
Background/Purpose: During treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) such as the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab, 2-4% of cancer patients develop inflammatory arthritis as an immune-related adverse…

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