Abstract Number: 0825 • ACR Convergence 2022
Predicting Outcomes in Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS): A Retrospective Study on 43 Consecutive Patients with MAS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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