Abstract Number: 0057 • ACR Convergence 2024
Flow Cytometry of Cells Within Induced Sputum from Individuals At-Risk for RA Reveals Relative Expansion of Small Macrophages
Background/Purpose: Serum elevations of ACPA in the absence of inflammatory arthritis is a well-established risk factor for the future development of clinical RA. The lung…Abstract Number: 0966 • ACR Convergence 2024
CDDO-Me Attenuates Pro-fibrotic Activation in Macrophages and Fibroblasts in Systemic Sclerosis
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by dysfunctional immune activation, oxidative stress, and fibrosis. In prior work, we have shown that SSc macrophages (MØs) have…Abstract Number: 2547 • ACR Convergence 2024
Neurophysiological Phenotypes Are Uncoupled from Toll-like Receptor-Mediated Peripheral Disease in a Mouse Model of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease with diverse clinical presentations, including neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSLE). Despite being a major cause of morbidity…Abstract Number: 0061 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparative Transcriptional Profiling of IPF and RA-ILD Lung Tissue Demonstrates Both Overlapping and Distinct Cell-specific Signaling Pathways
Background/Purpose: Transcriptional profiling represents a powerful tool for deciphering disease-relevant pathways and deriving functional biomarkers. Given the shared demographic, genetic, and clinico-epidemiologic features between rheumatoid…Abstract Number: 0972 • ACR Convergence 2024
Downregulated Fli1 in Scleroderma Myeloid Cells Contributes to Cardiac Fibrosis via a Galectin-3/mTOR Dependent Pathway
Background/Purpose: Cardiac fibrosis is a common complication in Systemic sclerosis (SSc), but the pathogenesis is largely unknown. We have previously shown that monocytes isolated from…Abstract Number: 2550 • ACR Convergence 2024
Infiltrating and Resident Macrophages in Lupus Nephritis: Scar Associated Macrophage Phagocytic Dysfunction and Fibroblast Activation
Background/Purpose: Lupus nephritis (LN) is driven by a heterogeneous population of renal macrophages. We have previously reported that the renal macrophage subpopulations are similar in…Abstract Number: 0062 • ACR Convergence 2024
Pro-Fibrotic Effects of Malondialdehyde-Acetaldehyde-Adducted and/or Citrullinated Proteins on Macrophages and Human Lung Fibroblasts
Background/Purpose: Clinically evident rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) affects approximately 10-15% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and accounts for the most overrepresented cause…Abstract Number: 0973 • ACR Convergence 2024
Mechano-transduction via MRTF-A Pathway Is Required for Cytokine Release by Scleroderma Macrophages
Background/Purpose: In keeping with hallmark clinical evidence of stiffening and fibrotic thickening of the skin, we and others have previously demonstrated a role for the…Abstract Number: 2593 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Long-term Synovial Tissue 3D Model Incorporating Fibroblasts, Macrophages, Endothelial Cells, and Other Immune Cells Such as Innate Lymphoid Cells Enables Animal Model-Independent Rheumatoid Arthritis Research
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease with multiple tissues contributing to its pathology, including the synovial membrane. The RA synovial membrane…Abstract Number: 0074 • ACR Convergence 2024
Tofacitinib Therapy Ameliorates Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Psoriasis and Arthritis by Inducing Type 2 Immunity
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a chronic progressive inflammatory arthritis, affects peripheral joints and causes patient disability. PsA patients also have skin plaques initiated by activation…Abstract Number: 1396 • ACR Convergence 2024
Low CD47 Expression on B Cells, Induces High B Cell Phagocytosis by Macrophages and Is a Predictive Biomarker of Anti-rituximab Antibodies and Lower Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Background/Purpose: Rituximab (RTX) provides long lasting efficacy in the control of rheumatoid arthritis. Among factors associated with RTX failure are the occurrence of anti-drug antibodies…Abstract Number: 2594 • ACR Convergence 2024
A Novel Therapeutically Active CSF-1R Agonist Promotes Tissue Macrophages Inflammation Resolution and Induces Tissue Repair Pathways
Background/Purpose: Current standard of care chronic inflammatory disease therapies are designed to suppress inflammation and are not optimized for inflammation resolution and restoration of tissue…Abstract Number: 0096 • ACR Convergence 2024
Simultaneous Contribution of Brain-Intrinsic and Peripheral Disease Mechanisms to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (NPSLE)
Background/Purpose: While NPSLE are among the least understood complications, increasing evidence points to microglia, a brain-resident innate immune cell population, as a driver of disease.…Abstract Number: 1643 • ACR Convergence 2024
Single Nuclei Multiome and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Early, Untreated SSc Skin Identifies Signaling Interactions Between Macrophages and Fibroblasts
Background/Purpose: We generated a vertically integrated dataset on treatment naïve patients with dcSSc (diffuse Systemic Sclerosis) skin that includes bulk RNA-seq, single nuclei multiome, and…Abstract Number: 2645 • ACR Convergence 2024
Human NCF1-p.R90H Variant Promotes Pulmonary Fibrosis in the Bleomycin-induced Mouse Model and Systemic Sclerosis Patients via Expansion of SPP1+Monocytes-derived Macrophages
Background/Purpose: We previously identified a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) causal risk variant, p.Arg90His (p.R90H, rs201802880) substitution encoded in neutrophil cytosolic factor 1 (NCF1), an essential component…
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