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Costantino Pitzalis

Professor of Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology QMUL
Verified email at qmul.ac.uk
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Ectopic lymphoid-like structures in infection, cancer and autoimmunity

C Pitzalis, GW Jones, M Bombardieri… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Ectopic lymphoid-like structures often develop at sites of inflammation where they influence
the course of infection, autoimmune disease, cancer and transplant rejection. These …

New learnings on the pathophysiology of RA from synovial biopsies

C Pitzalis, S Kelly, F Humby - Current opinion in rheumatology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
RA is a heterogeneous clinical and pathobiological entity. Specific pathways within synovial
tissues are emerging as associated with diverse clinical evolution and therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Role of the IL-23/IL-17 axis in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: the clinical importance of its divergence in skin and joints

MA Boutet, A Nerviani, G Gallo Afflitto… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Psoriasis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease causing erythematosus and scaly skin
plaques; up to 30% of patients with psoriasis develop Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), which is …

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 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lactate regulates metabolic and pro-inflammatory circuits in control of T cell migration and effector functions

R Haas, J Smith, V Rocher-Ros, S Nadkarni… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Lactate has long been considered a “waste” by-product of cell metabolism, and it
accumulates at sites of inflammation. Recent findings have identified lactate as an active …

[HTML][HTML] Ectopic lymphoid structures support ongoing production of class-switched autoantibodies in rheumatoid synovium

F Humby, M Bombardieri, A Manzo, S Kelly… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Follicular structures resembling germinal centres (GCs) that are characterized
by follicular dendritic cell (FDC) networks have long been recognized in chronically inflamed …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Mesenchymal multipotency of adult human periosteal cells demonstrated by single‐cell lineage analysis

C De Bari, F Dell'Accio, J Vanlauwe… - Arthritis & …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To investigate whether periosteal cells from adult humans have features of
multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) at the single‐cell level. Methods Cell …

[PDF][PDF] Lactate buildup at the site of chronic inflammation promotes disease by inducing CD4+ T cell metabolic rewiring

V Pucino, M Certo, V Bulusu, D Cucchi, K Goldmann… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Accumulation of lactate in the tissue microenvironment is a feature of both inflammatory
disease and cancer. Here, we assess the response of immune cells to lactate in the context …