Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology (EMR)
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The Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology (EMR) is focused on the development of innovative therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to inflammatory and degenerative arthropathies, particularly rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.
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Tocilizumab and rituximab for systemic sclerosis interstitial lung disease: a real-world cohort analysis.
(Oxford University Press, 2025-01-03)OBJECTIVES: Systemic sclerosis (SSc)-interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the leading causes of mortality in SSc. Data from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) supports rituximab and tocilizumab monotherapy but there ... -
TRPC1 links calcium signaling to cellular senescence in the protection against post-traumatic osteoarthritis
(American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2024-12-24)Transient receptor potential channel 1 (TRPC1) is a widely expressed mechanosensitive ion channel located within the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, crucial for refilling depleted internal calcium stores during activation ... -
Tissue-specific enhancer-gene maps from multimodal single-cell data identify causal disease alleles.
(2024-04)Translating genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci into causal variants and genes requires accurate cell-type-specific enhancer-gene maps from disease-relevant tissues. Building enhancer-gene maps is essential but ... -
The chromatin landscape of pathogenic transcriptional cell states in rheumatoid arthritis.
(2024-05-31)Synovial tissue inflammation is a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Recent work has identified prominent pathogenic cell states in inflamed RA synovial tissue, such as T peripheral helper cells; however, the epigenetic ... -
Tailoring the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases by a better stratification and characterization of the clinical patient heterogeneity. Findings from a systematic literature review and experts' consensus.
(2024)Inflammatory rheumatic diseases are different pathologic conditions associated with a deregulated immune response, codified along a spectrum of disorders, with autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases as two-end phenotypes ... -
Protocol for differentiation of monocytes and macrophages from human induced pluripotent stem cells.
(2024-07-27)Study of disease-relevant immune cells, namely monocytes and macrophages, is limited based on availability of primary tissue, a limitation that can be remedied using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology. ... -
Precision medicine in Sjögren's disease.
(2024-09)Sjögren's disease is a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous disease to which precision medicine, on the basis of clinical and biological heterogeneity, has been not always applicable. In patients with Sjögren's ... -
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes.
(2024-05-20)RATIONALE: Heterogeneity of the host response within sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and more widely critical illness, limits discovery and targeting of immunomodulatory therapies. Clustering approaches ... -
P154 Male lupus characteristics from multi-ethnic cohort
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Novel therapies for cancer-induced bone pain
(2024-07-01)Cancer pain is a growing problem, especially with the substantial increase in cancer survival. Reports indicate that bone metastasis, whose primary symptom is bone pain, occurs in 65–75% of patients with advanced breast ... -
Loss of synovial tissue macrophage homeostasis precedes rheumatoid arthritis clinical onset
(2024-09-27)This study performed an in-depth investigation into the myeloid cellular landscape in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), "individuals at risk" of RA, and healthy controls (HC). Flow cytometric analysis ... -
Diminished expression of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in early treatment-naïve patients with rheumatoid arthritis and concomitant type 2 diabetes may be linked to IL-1 pathway hyper-activity; results from PEAC cohort
(2024-09-28)OBJECTIVE: Based on the recent evidence of IL-1 inhibition in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and concomitant type 2 diabetes (T2D), we evaluated the synovial tissue expression of IL-1 related genes in relationship ... -
Associations Between Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Factors and Synovial Cell Types and States.
(2024-03)OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have uncovered diverse cell types and states in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovium; however, limited data exist correlating these findings with patient-level clinical information. Using the ... -
754 Sex Differences in a Murine Model of Osteoarthritis
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Interferon subverts an AHR-JUN axis to promote CXCL13+ T cells in lupus.
(2024-07)Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is prototypical autoimmune disease driven by pathological T cell-B cell interactions1,2. Expansion of T follicular helper (TFH) and T peripheral helper (TPH) cells, two T cell populations ...