Macrophages: the good, the bad, and the gluttony

EA Ross, A Devitt, JR Johnson - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages are dynamic cells that play critical roles in the induction and resolution of
sterile inflammation. In this review, we will compile and interpret recent findings on the …

Fibroblasts as immune regulators in infection, inflammation and cancer

S Davidson, M Coles, T Thomas, G Kollias… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In chronic infection, inflammation and cancer, the tissue microenvironment controls how
local immune cells behave, with tissue-resident fibroblasts emerging as a key cell type in …

Rituximab versus tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis: synovial biopsy-based biomarker analysis of the phase 4 R4RA randomized trial

F Rivellese, AEA Surace, K Goldmann, E Sciacca… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receive highly targeted biologic therapies without
previous knowledge of target expression levels in the diseased tissue. Approximately 40 …

Synovial tissue macrophages in joint homeostasis, rheumatoid arthritis and disease remission

M Kurowska-Stolarska, S Alivernini - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2022 - nature.com
Synovial tissue macrophages (STMs) were principally recognized as having a pro-
inflammatory role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), serving as the main producers of pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Rituximab versus tocilizumab in anti-TNF inadequate responder patients with rheumatoid arthritis (R4RA): 16-week outcomes of a stratified, biopsy-driven …

F Humby, P Durez, MH Buch, MJ Lewis, H Rizvi… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Although targeted biological treatments have transformed the outlook for
patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 40% of patients show poor clinical response, which is …

Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry

F Zhang, K Wei, K Slowikowski, CY Fonseka… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To define the cell populations that drive joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we
applied single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), mass cytometry, bulk RNA sequencing …

Age and age-related diseases: role of inflammation triggers and cytokines

IM Rea, DS Gibson, V McGilligan… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cytokine dysregulation is believed to play a key role in the remodeling of the immune
system at older age, with evidence pointing to an inability to fine-control systemic …

Stem cell-derived exosomes as nanotherapeutics for autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders

M Riazifar, MR Mohammadi, EJ Pone, A Yeri… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
To dissect therapeutic mechanisms of transplanted stem cells and develop exosome-based
nanotherapeutics in treating autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, we assessed …

Immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

GS Firestein, IB McInnes - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthropathy. The majority of
evidence, derived from genetics, tissue analyses, models, and clinical studies, points to an …

Molecular portraits of early rheumatoid arthritis identify clinical and treatment response phenotypes

MJ Lewis, MR Barnes, K Blighe, K Goldmann, S Rana… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
There is a current imperative to unravel the hierarchy of molecular pathways that drive the
transition of early to established disease in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Herein, we report a …