Assoc Professor in Residence
M_MED-CORE-RHEU
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) afflicts millions globally, causing significant joint deformity, pain, and functional disability. RA is without cure and its cause is unknown, but CD4 T cells—immune cells widely accepted to play a key role in RA pathogenesis—from patients with RA become activated by proteins through their T cell receptor (called “antigen-specific T cells”) and cause arthritis. Dr. Ashouri’s research uses a unique tool to identify and characterize these antigen-activated T cells in both a mouse model of RA and human RA. Elucidating the contribution of these pathogenic CD4 T cells to arthritis development in RA holds promise for the discovery of improved therapeutic targets.
Publications
A fasting-mimicking diet in patients with mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease: a randomized controlled trial.
Nature medicine
Endogenous antigens shape the transcriptome and TCR repertoire in an autoimmune arthritis model.
The Journal of clinical investigation
Repeated immunization with ATRA-containing liposomal adjuvant transdifferentiates Th17 cells to a Tr1-like phenotype.
Journal of autoimmunity
Hepatic Ly6CLo Non-Classical Monocytes Have Increased Nr4a1 (Nur77) in Murine Biliary Atresia.
Journal of clinical medicine
ZAP70, too little, too much can lead to autoimmunity.
Immunological reviews
Cross-Tissue Transcriptomic Analysis Leveraging Machine Learning Approaches Identifies New Biomarkers for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Frontiers in immunology
The Therapeutic Landscape of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current State and Future Directions.
Frontiers in pharmacology
Developing Human Skin Contains Lymphocytes Demonstrating a Memory Signature.
Cell reports. Medicine
Efficacy of Dietary Supplements in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Related Autoimmune Diseases.
Nutrients
Reporters of TCR signaling identify arthritogenic T cells in murine and human autoimmune arthritis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Endogenous Nur77 Is a Specific Indicator of Antigen Receptor Signaling in Human T and B Cells.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
A sharp T-cell antigen receptor signaling threshold for T-cell proliferation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The "Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale" (PAWSS): systematic literature review and pilot study of a new scale for the prediction of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)
A young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and extensive mesenteric vasculitis involving small and medium vessels.
Arthritis care & research
Rheumatic manifestations of cancer.
Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America
Transcriptional regulation of EGR-1 by the interleukin-1-JNK-MKK7-c-Jun pathway.
The Journal of biological chemistry
Androgens are protective in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: implications for multiple sclerosis.
Journal of neuroimmunology
Estrogen receptor alpha mediates estrogen's immune protection in autoimmune disease.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)