Abstracts tagged "macrophages"

Abstract Number: 0825 • ACR Convergence 2022
Predicting Outcomes in Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS): A Retrospective Study on 43 Consecutive Patients with MAS
Sumanth Madan¹, Suma Balan¹, MITHUN CHALAKKARAYIL BHAGAVALDAS², Spoorthy DR¹, Sudeep Rath¹, Joslyn Thattil¹, Amisha Shahul¹ and Niveditha Kartha¹, ¹Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India, ²Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Muvattupuzha, India
Background/Purpose: Macrophage activation syndrome is a diagnosis along the spectrum of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) spectrum disorders. It is a rare, yet potentially fatal disease characterized…
Abstract Number: 2164 • ACR Convergence 2022
Profibrotic Alveolar Macrophages as a Potential Biomarker in Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Nikolay Markov¹, Karolina Senkow¹, Anthony Esposito², Jonathan Puchalski³, Mridu Gulati³, Erica Herzog³, Danielle Antin-Ozerkis⁴, Mary Carns⁵, Alyssa Williams⁶, Nic Page⁶, Alexander Misharin¹ and Monique Hinchcliff⁷, ¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁴Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ⁵Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ⁶Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁷Yale School of Medicine, Westport, CT
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Previously, profibrotic monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages (MoAM) expressing (SPP1,…
Abstract Number: 1119 • ACR Convergence 2022
Investigating Macrophage Heterogeneity in the Esophagus and Lungs of SSc Patients
Hadijat Makinde¹, Carla Cuda¹, Miranda Gurra¹, Mary Carns², Kathleen Aren², Gaurav Gadhvi¹, Salina Dominguez¹, Jane Dematte³, Darren Brenner⁴, John Pandolfino⁵, G. R. Scott Budinger⁴, Deborah Winter⁶ and Harris Perlman¹, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Division of Rheumatology, Chicago, IL, ³Northwestern University, Elmhurst, IL, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ⁵Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Wilmette, IL, ⁶Northwestern University, Skokie, IL
Background/Purpose: Our group has made important contributions to an emerging understanding of monocytes and macrophages as central to SSc pathogenesis. There are numerous studies that…
Abstract Number: 2261 • ACR Convergence 2022
Pain in Osteoarthritis – Identification of GPR34 and GPR150 as Novel Targets in the Dorsal Root Ganglia
Matthew Wood¹, Terese Geraghty², David Thomas³, Alia Obeidat¹, Jun Li², Richard Miller⁴, Rachel Miller¹ and Anne-Marie Malfait⁵, ¹Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²Rush University, Chicago, IL, ³University of Minnesota Internal Medicine Residency, St. Paul, MN, ⁴Northwestern University, Evaston, IL, ⁵Rush University, Oak Park, IL
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of chronic pain worldwide. Currently available pain-alleviating therapies are often inadequate and associated with serious adverse effects, resulting…
Abstract Number: 1166 • ACR Convergence 2022
Scleroderma Fibroblasts Induce Alternative Macrophage Activation via an ERK1/2-dependent Mechanism
Taha Dinc¹, Juan-Pablo Zertuche¹, Fatima El Adili², Maria Trojanowska³ and Andreea Bujor³, ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Revere, MA, ³Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Activation of the innate immune system in systemic sclerosis (SSc), with an increased number of profibrotic/alternatively-activated macrophages in affected tissues, is an important aspect…
Abstract Number: 1168 • ACR Convergence 2022
Dermal Fibroblast-derived Exosomes Drive Profibrotic Macrophage Activation in Systemic Sclerosis
Heetaek Yang¹, Rajan Bhandari¹, Noelle Kosarek², Jonathan Garlick³, Michael Whitfield⁴ and Patricia Pioli¹, ¹Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, ²Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, ³Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Macrophage (MØ) activation derives from coordination of signals received in local tissue microenvironments. In prior studies, we demonstrated that cocultured MØs and fibroblasts from…
Abstract Number: 1169 • ACR Convergence 2022
Downregulated Fli1 in Systemic Sclerosis Myeloid Cells Contributes to Enhanced Transendothelial Migration
Pablo Weilg Espejo¹, Taha Dinc², Fatima El Adili³, Maria Trojanowska⁴ and Andreea Bujor⁴, ¹Boston Medical Center, Chelsea, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Boston University School of Medicine, Revere, MA, ⁴Boston University, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The mononuclear phagocytic system in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is central to fibrogenesis and may contribute to fibrosis via enhanced monocyte migration into injured tissues…
Abstract Number: 1172 • ACR Convergence 2022
Transcription Analysis of Macrophages Reveals Important Changes Induced by Systemic Sclerosis Fibroblasts
Juan-Pablo Zertuche¹, Taha Dinc², Fatima El Adili³, Giovanni Ligresti¹ and Andreea Bujor¹, ¹Boston University, Boston, MA, ²Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Boston University School of Medicine, Revere, MA
Background/Purpose: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by immune system activation, endothelial dysfunction and widespread tissue fibrosis. Activation of the monocyte/macrophage…
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: 1174 • ACR Convergence 2022
Cellular Immunotherapy for Systemic Sclerosis
Chanhyuk Park¹, Rajan Bhandari², Jason Gunn³, Timothy Sullivan², Gretel Torres², Joana Murad³, Michael Whitfield⁴ and Patricia Pioli², ¹Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, West Lebanon, NH, ²Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, ³Celdara Medical, Lebanon, ⁴Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Pro-fibrotic macrophages (MØs) are implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc). In prior work, we and others have shown that MØs derived from…
Abstract Number: 0148 • ACR Convergence 2022
Dysferlin Associated Autoinflammatory Disease Causing Systemic Inflammation and Sterile Lung Abcesses Through Impaired Efferocytosis
Farzana Bhuyan¹, Adriana Almeida de Jesus², Clinton Bradfield³, Mohammad Arif Rahman⁴, Andre Rastegar³, sundar ganesan³, Sachin Gaurav³, Sara Alehashemi³, Ronit Herzog⁵, Steven Holland³, Deborah Consilini⁶, Iain Fraser³ and Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky⁷, ¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²NIAID, NIH, Silver Spring, MD, ³NIAID, Bethesda, MD, ⁴NCI, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁶Nemours Children's Hospital-Delaware, Wilmington, DE, ⁷NIAID, NIH, Rockville
Background/Purpose: Using whole exome sequencing (WES), we identified a de novo mutation in DYSF encoding dysferlin in 2 unrelated patients with systemic inflammation and sterile…
Abstract Number: 1177 • ACR Convergence 2022
Identification of a New Type of Pro-phagocytic Macrophages in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
Amela Hukara¹, Tracy Tabib², Michal Rudnik¹, Oliver Distler³, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk¹, Robert Lafyatis² and Gabriela Kania¹, ¹Center of Experimental Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Phagocytosis is a crucial cellular process, which under certain immuno-pathological conditions can be activated in macrophages in an uncontrolled manner. Biomarker studies have implicated…
Abstract Number: 0529 • ACR Convergence 2022
Complex Relationships Between Inflammation and Clonal Hematopoiesis in Systemic Vasculitis
Adrianna Jones¹, Kristina Wells¹, Fernanda Gutierrez-Rodrigues², Cameron Rankin³, Wanxia Tsai³, Bhavisha Patel⁴, Kaitlin Quinn¹, Dalton Hironaka², Massimo Gadina⁵, Keith Sikora¹, Neal Young² and Peter Grayson⁶, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ²National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, ³NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴National Institutes of Health, Beltsville, MD, ⁵Translational Immunology Section, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁶National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is defined by somatic mutations in a set of genes commonly associated with myeloid neoplasms in an otherwise…
Abstract Number: 1666 • ACR Convergence 2022
Differentiation of Injury-associated Macrophages in Lupus Kidneys Is Conserved in Humans and Lupus Mouse Models
Paul Hoover¹, David Lieb², Stephen Li², Chirag Raparia³, Accelerating Medicines Partnership SLE/RA⁴, Arnon Arazi⁵, Nir Hacohen² and Anne Davidson⁶, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ³Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine At Hofstra/Northwell, Shoreham, NY, ⁴NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Melrose, MA, ⁶Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY
Background/Purpose: Infiltrating monocytes acquire functions that support kidney remodeling in response to tissue damage in lupus nephritis. This process of monocyte differentiation has been difficult…
Abstract Number: 0554 • ACR Convergence 2022
Loss of Synovial Tissue Macrophage Homeostasis Precedes Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Onset
Megan Hanlon¹, Mary Canavan², conor Smith³, Achilleas Floudas⁴, Nuno Neto⁵, Qingxuan Song⁶, Phil Gallagher⁷, Ronan Mullan⁸, Conor Hurson⁹, Barry Moran⁵, Michael Monaghan⁵, Sunil Nagpal¹⁰, Douglas Veale¹¹ and Ursula Fearon⁵, ¹Molecular Rheumatology, Dublin, Ireland, ²Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, ³bTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁴Molecular Rheumatology Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Dublin, Ireland, ⁵Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ⁶Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, PA, ⁷St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁸Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ⁹St Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, ¹⁰Janssen Research, Collegeville, PA, ¹¹St. Vincent's University Hospital, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland
Background/Purpose: Synovial-tissue macrophages significantly contribute to Rheumatoid Arthritis, yet the precise nature/function of macrophage subsets within the inflamed joint remains unexplored. Here we explore the…

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