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Abstracts tagged "inflammation and macrophages"

  • Abstract Number: 2089 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017

    Arhalofenate Acid Inhibits Urate Crystal-Induced Inflammatory Responses through Activation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) Signaling

    Charles McWherter1, Robert Terkeltaub2,3 and Ru Liu-Bryan3,4, 1CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc., Newark, CA, 2Rheumatology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, 3Medicine-Rheumatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 4VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA

    Background/Purpose: Arhalofenate is an investigational drug with dual uricosuric and anti-inflammatory properties. Arhalofenate reduced the risk of acute flare while lowering serum urate levels in…
  • Abstract Number: 1123 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Targeted Mutations Identify the Active Site of Glucocorticoid-Induced Leucine Zipper (GILZ)

    Huapeng Fan1, Die Wang2, Qiang Cheng3, James Harris3, Sarah Jones3, Yuan Hang Yang4 and Eric Morand4, 1Lupus Research Group, Center for Inflammatory Diseases, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Calyton, Australia, 2Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia, 3Lupus Research Group, Center for Inflammatory Diseases, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, 4Lupus Research Group, Center for Inflammatory Diseases, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Background/Purpose: Glucocorticoids (GC) have been used to treat inflammatory disease for more than six decades, but the broad spectrum of therapeutic effects is accompanied by…
  • Abstract Number: 2866 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

    Lupus HDL Induces Pro-Inflammatory Responses in Macrophages By Binding LOX1Rand Failing to Promote ATF3 Activity

    Carolyne K. Smith1, Nickie Seto1, Anuradha Vivekanandan-Giri2, Wenmin Yuan3, Martin Playford4, Zerai G. Manna5, Sarfaraz A. Hasni6, Rui Kuai3, Nehal N. Mehta4, Anna Schwendeman3, Subramaniam Pennathur2 and Mariana Kaplan7, 1Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2Internal Medicine/Nephrology, University of Michigan Nephrology, Ann Arbor, MI, 3Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 4NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 5National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 6Lupus Clinical Research Program, Office of the Clinical Director, NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 7NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD

    Background/Purpose: Recent evidence indicates that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) exerts vasculoprotective activities by promoting activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3), leading to down-regulation of TLR-induced inflammatory responses.…
  • Abstract Number: 2950 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Synovial Macrophages Promote TGF-β Activation after Intra-Articular Injections of Oxidized LDL in Naïve Murine Knee Joints, Preventing Production of Pro-Inflammatory Factors S100A8/9, Chemokines and Aggrecanase-Induced Neo-Epitopes

    Wouter de Munter, Peter M. van der Kraan, Wim B. van den Berg and Peter L. van Lent, Experimental Rheumatology (272), Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Background/Purpose: In previous studies we found that synovial macrophages regulate joint pathology during experimental osteoarthritis (OA). Recently, we found that high systemic levels of LDL…
  • Abstract Number: 1206 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    Low Dose Colchicine Anti-Inflammatory Effects Are Transduced By AMP-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK)

    Ru Bryan1, Robert Terkeltaub2 and Yun Wang3, 1Medicine-Rheumatology, VA Medical Center/University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2Medicine-Rheumatology, VA Medical Ctr/University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 3Medicine-Rheumatology, VA Medical Ctr/UCSD, San Diego, CA

    Background/Purpose AMPK is a master metabolic energy regulator, whose tissue activity drops in response to nutritional excesses, alcohol consumption, and in obesity, metabolic syndrome and…
  • Abstract Number: 1038 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014

    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: 1639 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

    FLIP in Macrophages Promotes the Progression of Serum Transfer-Induced Arthritis

    Qi Quan Huang1, Robert Birkett2, Renee E. Koessler1, G. Kenneth Haines III3, Harris R. Perlman4 and Richard M. Pope5, 1Medicine/Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2Division of Rheumatology, Department od Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Department of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 4Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 5Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg school of Medicine, Chicago, IL

    Background/Purpose: Flip is well known as an anti-apoptotic protein induced by chronic inflammation that protects against death receptor-mediated apoptosis. Employing a FLIP myeloid lineage knock-out…
  • Abstract Number: 1095 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

    Metal Concentrations in Patients with Failed Metal-On-Metal Hip Prostheses Determine the Inflammatory Phenotype in Peri-Implant Tissue

    Erja-Leena Paukkeri1, Riku Korhonen1, Antti Eskelinen2, Marko Pesu3, Kaija Vasama4, Teemu Moilanen2 and Eeva Moilanen1, 1The Immunopharmacology Research Group, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland, 2Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement, Tampere, Finland, 3Immunoregulation, Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, 4Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland

    Background/Purpose: Hip arthroplasty is the standard treatment of a painful hip destruction in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. The use of metal-on-metal (MoM) bearing surfaces in…

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