Abstracts tagged "inflammasome activation and interferons"

Abstract Number: 2432 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Immune Abnormalities Leading to Exaggerated Production of IFN-Gamma (IFNγ) and the Therapeutic Response to an Anti-IFNγ Antibody in a Patient with NRLC4 Mediated Disease
Claudia Bracaglia¹, Giusi Prencipe², Manuela Pardeo¹, Geneviève Lapeyre³, Emiliano Marasco², Antonella Insalaco¹, Walter Ferlin³, Robert Nelson³, Cristina de Min³ and Fabrizio De Benedetti¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy, ²Division of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù IRCCS, Rome, Italy, ³NovImmune S.A., Geneva, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Animal and human data suggest that IFNγ plays a pathogenic role in HLH. A phase 2 trial with the anti-IFNγ monoclonal antibody NI-0501 in…