{"title":"Helicobacter pylori-induced citrullination linked to RA exacerbation","authors":"Holly Webster","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01165-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01165-x","url":null,"abstract":"New findings reveal a potential mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori exacerbates rheumatoid arthritis","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"598-598"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guiding ILD management in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases","authors":"Fabrizio Luppi, Marco Sebastiani","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01160-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01160-2","url":null,"abstract":"The first guidelines for the screening, monitoring and treatment of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are now available after a major multidisciplinary effort by the ACR and the American College of Chest Physicians. These guidelines demonstrate that multidisciplinary collaborations can improve SARD-ILD management.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 11","pages":"669-670"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is X chromosome inactivation a cause or effect of SLE?","authors":"R. Hal Scofield, Valerie M. Lewis","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01159-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01159-9","url":null,"abstract":"Autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus preferentially affect women, and multiple hypotheses are under investigation to elucidate this phenomenon. Emerging research suggests that multiple pathophysiological mechanisms and pathways are likely involved, including several that involve the X chromosome, but is skewing of X chromosome inactivation one of them?","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"599-600"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142120232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The immune health metric as an indicator of health and disease","authors":"Satoshi Kubo, Yoshiya Tanaka","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01162-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01162-0","url":null,"abstract":"Immune health has been considered impossible to assess through the use of traditional biomarkers. The newly devised immune health metric (IHM) integrates diverse biological data to quantify immune function, offering a comprehensive indicator for the evaluation of immune health. The potential of the IHM to distinguish healthy individuals from patients with monogenic or polygenic immune-mediated diseases might lead to revolutionary changes in treatment strategies for rheumatic diseases.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 12","pages":"743-744"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maya H. Buch, Ziad Mallat, Marc R. Dweck, Jason M. Tarkin, Declan P. O’Regan, Vanessa Ferreira, Taryn Youngstein, Sven Plein
{"title":"Current understanding and management of cardiovascular involvement in rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases","authors":"Maya H. Buch, Ziad Mallat, Marc R. Dweck, Jason M. Tarkin, Declan P. O’Regan, Vanessa Ferreira, Taryn Youngstein, Sven Plein","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01149-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01149-x","url":null,"abstract":"Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) are a spectrum of disorders of overlapping immunopathogenesis, with a prevalence of up to 10% in Western populations and increasing incidence in developing countries. Although targeted treatments have revolutionized the management of rheumatic IMIDs, cardiovascular involvement confers an increased risk of mortality and remains clinically under-recognized. Cardiovascular pathology is diverse across rheumatic IMIDs, ranging from premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) to inflammatory cardiomyopathy, which comprises myocardial microvascular dysfunction, vasculitis, myocarditis and pericarditis, and heart failure. Epidemiological and clinical data imply that rheumatic IMIDs and associated cardiovascular disease share common inflammatory mechanisms. This concept is strengthened by emergent trials that indicate improved cardiovascular outcomes with immune modulators in the general population with ASCVD. However, not all disease-modifying therapies that reduce inflammation in IMIDs such as rheumatoid arthritis demonstrate equally beneficial cardiovascular effects, and the evidence base for treatment of inflammatory cardiomyopathy in patients with rheumatic IMIDs is lacking. Specific diagnostic protocols for the early detection and monitoring of cardiovascular involvement in patients with IMIDs are emerging but are in need of ongoing development. This Review summarizes current concepts on the potentially targetable inflammatory mechanisms of cardiovascular pathology in rheumatic IMIDs and discusses how these concepts can be considered for the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular involvement across rheumatic IMIDs, with an emphasis on the potential of cardiovascular imaging for risk stratification, early detection and prognostication. Cardiovascular involvement is one of the many manifestations of rheumatic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) that increase mortality. The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and inflammatory cardiomyopathies involves inflammatory pathways common with those operating and targeted in rheumatic IMIDs. Here, Maya Buch and colleagues discuss implications of these shared pathways for the prevention, detection and management of cardiovascular involvement in patients with rheumatic IMIDs, while highlighting complexities and open questions.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"614-634"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Macrophage-coated nanocarriers for gouty arthritis","authors":"Holly Webster","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01161-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01161-1","url":null,"abstract":"In a new study, researchers use M2 macrophage exosomes and membranes to disguise a tri-drug-carrying nanosystem that reduces inflammation and urate levels in rats with gouty arthritis.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"597-597"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142042461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing equity in genomic medicine for rheumatology","authors":"Roberto Díaz-Peña, Olufemi Adelowo","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01156-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01156-y","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing diversity in genomic studies is essential to advance precision medicine and health equity in rheumatic diseases. Addressing structural and logistical barriers to include underrepresented populations, particularly in Africa and Latin America, could improve our understanding of rheumatic diseases and lead to better healthcare outcomes for all.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"595-596"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142036419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PDZK1 downregulation linked to mitochondrial dysfunction in OA","authors":"Maria Papatriantafyllou","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01157-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01157-x","url":null,"abstract":"The PDZ domain-containing scaffold protein PDZK1 is downregulated in osteoarthritic chondrocytes and is linked to mitochondrial dysfunction and chondrocyte senescence.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 10","pages":"597-597"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142009049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renpeng Zhou, Wenyu Fu, Dmytro Vasylyev, Stephen G. Waxman, Chuan-ju Liu
{"title":"Ion channels in osteoarthritis: emerging roles and potential targets","authors":"Renpeng Zhou, Wenyu Fu, Dmytro Vasylyev, Stephen G. Waxman, Chuan-ju Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41584-024-01146-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41584-024-01146-0","url":null,"abstract":"Osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly prevalent joint disease that causes substantial disability, yet effective approaches to disease prevention or to the delay of OA progression are lacking. Emerging evidence has pinpointed ion channels as pivotal mediators in OA pathogenesis and as promising targets for disease-modifying treatments. Preclinical studies have assessed the potential of a variety of ion channel modulators to modify disease pathways involved in cartilage degeneration, synovial inflammation, bone hyperplasia and pain, and to provide symptomatic relief in models of OA. Some of these modulators are currently being evaluated in clinical trials. This review explores the structures and functions of ion channels, including transient receptor potential channels, Piezo channels, voltage-gated sodium channels, voltage-dependent calcium channels, potassium channels, acid-sensing ion channels, chloride channels and the ATP-dependent P2XR channels in the osteoarthritic joint. The discussion spans channel-targeting drug discovery and potential clinical applications, emphasizing opportunities for further research, and underscoring the growing clinical impact of ion channel biology in OA. Ion channels have key functions in chondrocytes, bone cells, immune cells and neurons. Liu and colleagues discuss how these functions might contribute to cartilage degeneration, bone formation inflammation and pain in osteoarthritis, and highlight the therapeutic potential of ion channel modulators.","PeriodicalId":18810,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Rheumatology","volume":"20 9","pages":"545-564"},"PeriodicalIF":29.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141909158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}