Cytokine networks in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

N Kondo, T Kuroda, D Kobayashi - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic systemic
inflammation causing progressive joint damage that can lead to lifelong disability. The …

Restoring synovial homeostasis in rheumatoid arthritis by targeting fibroblast-like synoviocytes

G Nygaard, GS Firestein - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic immune-mediated disease that primarily affects the
synovium of diarthrodial joints. During the course of RA, the synovium transforms into a …

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 …

Fibroblast pathology in inflammatory diseases

K Wei, HN Nguyen, MB Brenner - The Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Fibroblasts are important cells for the support of homeostatic tissue function. In inflammatory
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, fibroblasts take on …

Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intra-tumoral heterogeneity and malignant progression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

J Peng, BF Sun, CY Chen, JY Zhou, YS Chen, H Chen… - Cell research, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer
featured with high intra-tumoral heterogeneity and poor prognosis. To comprehensively …

Distinct synovial tissue macrophage subsets regulate inflammation and remission in rheumatoid arthritis

S Alivernini, L MacDonald, A Elmesmari, S Finlay… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Immune-regulatory mechanisms of drug-free remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are
unknown. We hypothesized that synovial tissue macrophages (STM), which persist in …

Osteoimmunology: evolving concepts in bone–immune interactions in health and disease

M Tsukasaki, H Takayanagi - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
In terrestrial vertebrates, bone tissue constitutes the 'osteoimmune'system, which functions
as a locomotor organ and a mineral reservoir as well as a primary lymphoid organ where …

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 …

Distinct fibroblast subsets drive inflammation and damage in arthritis

AP Croft, J Campos, K Jansen, JD Turner, J Marshall… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The identification of lymphocyte subsets with non-overlapping effector functions has been
pivotal to the development of targeted therapies in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases …

Notch signalling drives synovial fibroblast identity and arthritis pathology

K Wei, I Korsunsky, JL Marshall, A Gao, GFM Watts… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The synovium is a mesenchymal tissue composed mainly of fibroblasts, with a lining and
sublining that surround the joints. In rheumatoid arthritis the synovial tissue undergoes …