T-cell subset abnormalities predict progression along the Inflammatory Arthritis disease continuum: implications for management

Autor: Hanna Gul, Agata Burska, Rekha Parmar, Thibault Rabin, Maya H Buch, Frederique Ponchel, L. Hunt, Philip G. Conaghan, Paul Emery
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60314-w
Popis: The presence of a disease continuum in inflammatory arthritis (IA) is a recognised concept, with distinct stages from at-risk stage (presence of anti citrullinated-peptide autoantibody) to diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including therapy-induced remission. Despite T-cell dysregulation being a key feature of RA, there are few reports of T-cell phenotyping along the IA-continuum. We investigated the disturbances of naïve, regulatory and inflammation related cell (IRC) CD4+ T-cell subsets in 705 individuals across the IA-continuum, developing a simple risk-score (summing presence/absence of a risk-associated with a subset) to predict progression from one stage to the next. In 158 at-risk individuals, the 3 subsets had individual association with progression to IA and the risk-score was highly predictive (p
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