Abstracts tagged "Inflammation"

Abstract Number: 0419 • ACR Convergence 2022
Efficacy of Upadacitinib in Patients with Non-Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Stratified by Objective Signs of Inflammation at Baseline
Walter P Maksymowych¹, Xenofon Baraliakos², Atul Deodhar³, Denis Poddubnyy⁴, Fabiana Ganz⁵, Tianming Gao⁶, Jayne Stigler⁶, Anna K Shmagel⁶, Peter Wung⁶ and Filip Van den bosch⁷, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ³Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA, Portland, OR, ⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵AbbVie, Inc., Luzern, Switzerland, ⁶AbbVie, Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Ghent University and VIB Centre for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium
Background/Purpose: The Phase 3 SELECT-AXIS 2 trial (NCT04169373) assessed the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib (UPA) in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA). Here, we…
Abstract Number: 0609 • ACR Convergence 2022
Macrophage Response to MAA Modified Fibrinogen in the Presence of Peptidyl Arginine Deiminase Inhibitor
nozima Aripova¹, Michael Duryee¹, carlos hunter¹, Geoffrey Thiele¹ and Ted Mikuls², ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: The formation of citrullinated (CIT) proteins is catalyzed by a calcium-dependent peptidyl arginine deiminase (PAD). In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), synovial macrophages are main contributors…
Abstract Number: 0992 • ACR Convergence 2022
Interim Results from the Phase 2 MISSION Study Evaluating Zetomipzomib (KZR-616), a First-in-Class Selective Immunoproteasome Inhibitor for the Treatment of Lupus Nephritis
Amit Saxena¹, Samir Parikh², Richard Furie³, Richard Leff⁴, Steven Hua⁴, Li Long⁵ and Noreen Henig⁴, ¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ⁴Kezar Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, ⁵Kezar Life Sciences, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Zetomipzomib is a first-in-class selective inhibitor of the immunoproteasome that is active in multiple autoimmune disease models, including murine models of SLE and LN.…
Abstract Number: 1503 • ACR Convergence 2022
Is Inflammation-driven Bone Loss Associated with Two-year Bone Formation at the Same Vertebra in Axial Spondyloarthritis? – a Multilevel MRI and Low Dose CT Analysis from the Sensitive Imaging of Axial Spondyloarthritis (SIAS) Cohort
Mary Lucy Marques¹, Nuno Pereira da Silva², Désirée van der Heijde³, Rosalinde Stal⁴, Xenofon Baraliakos⁵, Juergen Braun⁶, Monique Reijnierse⁴, Caroline Bastiaenen⁷, Sofia Ramiro⁴ and floris van Gaalen⁴, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Coimbra, Portugal, ²Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Herne, Germany, ⁶Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany, ⁷Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: In radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA), inflammation-driven trabecular bone loss is hypothesised to trigger bone repair at an anatomically distinct site of the same vertebra…
Abstract Number: 1777 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Symptom Checker App Is Better at Classifying Inflammatory Disease Than Physicians Who Are Presented Identical Information
markus Gräf¹, Johannes Knitza², Jan Leipe³, Martin Krusche⁴, Martin Welcker⁵, Sebastian Kuhn⁶, Johanna Mucke⁷, Axel Hueber⁸, Johannes Hornig⁹, Philipp Klemm¹⁰, stefan Kleinert¹¹, Peer Aries¹², Nicolas Vuillerme¹³, Arnd Kleyer², Georg Schett¹⁴ and Johanna Callhoff¹⁵, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversityErlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine V, University Hospital Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, ⁴University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ⁵GBR, Planegg, Germany, ⁶Department of Digital Medicine, Medical Faculty OWL, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, ⁷Policlinic and Hiller Research Center, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Neuss, Germany, ⁸Paracelsus University Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Rheumatologische Schwerpunktpraxis, Osnabrück, Germany, ¹⁰Campus Kerckhoff of Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ¹¹Praxisgemeinschaft Rheumatologie - Nephrologie (PGRN), Erlangen, Germany, ¹²Rheumatologie im Struenseehaus, Hamburg, Germany, ¹³Université Grenoble Alpes, AGEIS, Grenoble, France, ¹⁴Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁵German Rheumatism Research Centre, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the ability of an artificial intelligence-based symptom checker app (Ada) and physicians to determine the presence/absence…
Abstract Number: 2008 • ACR Convergence 2022
A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Mechanistic Insight and Dosage Optimization Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Dazodalibep (VIB4920/HZN4920) in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Having Inadequate Response to Conventional/Biological DMARDs
Alan Kivitz¹, Liangwei Wang², Ilias Alevizos², Michele Gunsior², Judith Falloon² and Gabor Illei³, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Altoona Center for Clinical Research, Duncansville, PA, ²Horizon Therapeutics, Gaithersburg, MD, ³Horizon Therapeutics, Rockville, MD
Background/Purpose: Dazodalibep (DAZ), a non-antibody biologic antagonist of CD40L, led to higher/durable response rates vs. placebo (PBO) in a double-blind, Phase 1b trial of patients…
Abstract Number: 0026 • ACR Convergence 2022
Silencing of WISP-2 Induces Inflammatory Mediators and Catabolic Factors in Cartilage
Clara Ruiz-Fernández¹, María González-Rodríguez², Vera Francisco³, Djedjiga Ait Eldjoudi², Alfonso Cordero-Barreal², Yousof Farrag², Jesús Pino⁴, Miguel Ángel González-Gay⁵, Antonio Mera⁶, Francisca Lago² and Oreste Gualillo⁷, ¹Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, ²Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ³Institute of Health Research-INCLIVA, València, Spain, ⁴Santiago Clinic Hospital CHUS-Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁵Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Cantabria; Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla; Research group on genetic epidemiology and atherosclerosis in systemic diseases and in metabolic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁶Santiago University Clinical Hospital CHUS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ⁷Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS (Servizo Galego de Saude) and IDIS (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago), NEIRID Lab (Neuroendocrine Interactions in Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases), Research Laboratory 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Background/Purpose: Wnt-1 inducible signaling pathway protein 2 (WISP-2/CCN5) is an adipokine that has been described as an important mediator of canonical Wnt activation in adipogenic…
Abstract Number: 0482 • ACR Convergence 2022
Role of miR-146a and miR-146b in Giant Cell Arteritis
Martina Bonacini¹, Alessandro Rossi¹, Ilaria Ferrigno², Francesco Muratore¹, Luigi Boiardi¹, Alberto Cavazza¹, Luca Cimino², Angelo Ghidini¹, Giuseppe Malchiodi¹, Marc Corbera-Bellalta³, Maria C Cid³, Alessandro Zerbini¹, Carlo Salvarani⁴ and Stefania Croci¹, ¹Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ²Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ³Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease of large and medium-sized arteries. MiRNAs (miR) are small, non-coding RNAs that inhibit gene expression at…
Abstract Number: 0614 • ACR Convergence 2022
Post-translationally Modified Fibrinogen Activated Macrophages Drive the Expression of Fibrotic Genes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes
nozima Aripova¹, Michael Duryee¹, carlos hunter¹, Eric Daubach¹, Evan Ryan¹, Geoffrey Thiele¹ and Ted Mikuls², ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Background/Purpose: Cellular interactions between synovial macrophages and human fibroblast-like synoviocytes (HFLS) contribute to articular inflammation and fibrosis in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), leading to subsequent joint…
Abstract Number: 1095 • ACR Convergence 2022
A20(Tnfaip3) in Keratinocytes Restricts an Early Antiviral Gene Program Associated with Psoriatic Skin and Joint Disease
Bahram Razani¹, Jared Liu¹, Ryan Tobias¹, Sugandh Kumar¹, Zhi-Ming Huang¹, Wilson Liao², Barbara Malynn³ and Averil Ma³, ¹Dept. of Dermatology, UCSF, San Francisco, ²Dept. of Dermatology, San Francisco, ³Division of Gastroenterology, UCSF, San Francisco
Background/Purpose: A20 (Tnfaip3) levels are reduced in psoriatic plaques and polymorphisms in the TNFAIP3 gene locus are associated with increased risk for both psoriasis and psoriatic…
Abstract Number: 1508 • ACR Convergence 2022
Enthesitis a Dominant Pathology in Psoriatic Arthritis: Identification and Quantification of Enthesitis Burden by 18F-FDG Total-Body PET/CT Imaging
Siba Raychaudhuri¹, Yasser Abdelhafez², Dario Mazza³, Smriti Raychaudhuri⁴ and Abhijit Chaudhari³, ¹UC Davis, School of Medicine/ VA Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, ²University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, ³UC Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, ⁴VA Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Background/Purpose: The enthesitis can be the earliest/primary inflammatory event in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Clinically most of the entheses are not accessible and can't be assessed;…
Abstract Number: 1787 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Impact of Topically Applied pH Modulator on Acute Inflammatory Pain, Serum Calcium, and C-Reactive Protein (CRP) During an Acute Gout Flare – a Phase 2a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study
Puja Khanna¹ and Ryan Beal², ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Dyve Biosciences, Inc, Camarillo, CA
Background/Purpose: Inflammatory cytokine-mediated bone resorption increases serum calcium (Ca2+) and can lead to calcification at chronically inflamed sites. Ca2+ influences cytokine activity to intensify the…
Abstract Number: 2024 • ACR Convergence 2022
Salivary Gland Ultrasound May Lead to a More Accurate Stratification of Patients with the Same Serological Profile in Sjögren’s Syndrome: Towards a Personalized Approach
Silvia Fonzetti¹, Francesco Ferro², Gaetano La Rocca³, Giovanni Fulvio⁴, Inmaculada Concepción Navarro García⁵, Gianmaria Governato⁶, Valentina Donati⁷, Marta Mosca⁸ and Chiara Baldini⁴, ¹Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ²Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ³University of Pisa, Rheumatology Unit, Palermo, Palermo, Italy, ⁴University of Pisa, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁵Clinical and Experimental Medicine Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy, ⁶Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁷Pathology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, ⁸Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Background/Purpose: Salivary gland ultrasound (SGUS) abnormalities have been increasingly recognized as possible biomarkers for Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) phenotypic stratification. However, to date few studies have…
Abstract Number: 0028 • ACR Convergence 2022
Microenvironmental Stiffness Modulates Macrophage Responsiveness and Communication with Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Sung Yeon Kim, Carla Scanzello, Robert Mauck and Edward Bonnevie, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: The synovium envelopes the diarthodial joint and is composed of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) and macrophage-like synoviocytes (MLS). In healthy joints, the synovial cavity maintains…
Abstract Number: 0501 • ACR Convergence 2022
Single-molecule Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Distinct Cellular Networks in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovia
Roopa Madhu¹, Kartik Bhamidipati¹, Nghia Millard², Michelle Curtis², Ye Cui³, Youngmi Kim³, Ellen Gravallese⁴, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹, Michael Brenner⁴, ilya Korsunsky¹ and Kevin Wei⁵, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Broad Institute, Boston, MA, ³Nanostring Technologies Inc., Seattle, WA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Chronic joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) arises from the interactions of many cell types. Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of RA joints has identified novel…

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