ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2011
Local renal autoantibody production in lupus nephritis.
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- Organ-based characterization of B cells in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- B Cell Kinetics upon Therapy Commencement for Active Extrarenal Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Relation to Development of Renal Flares: Results from Three Phase III Clinical Trials of Belimumab.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Trial
- Efficacy and safety of telitacicept combined with standard of care in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis: a real-world retrospective study.Lupus science & medicine · 2026Article
- The why, what, who and when of B cell depletion in systemic lupus erythematosus: biological rationale, patient stratification and evolving therapeutic modalities.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- Decoding Lupus Diagnosis, Pathogenesis and Therapy: From Systemic Autoimmunity to Renal Damage.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Aberrant sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 expression on activated naive B cells associated with disease activity and lupus nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus.Arthritis research & therapy · 2026Article
- Inflammation-Driven Lymphoid Structures: Organization, Function, and Clinical Impact Across Autoimmunity, Cancer, and Checkpoint Toxicity.Immunological reviews · 2026Review
- Integrative bioinformatics and experimental analysis reveals FRA1 as a key mediator of tubulointerstitial inflammation in lupus nephritis.Molecular medicine reports · 2026Article
- Importance of B cells (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
- Serum anti-β2 spectrin IgA antibodies are produced in a CD4 T cell-independent manner in IgA nephropathy model mouse.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Distinct autoreactive CD19Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cxcl9Communications biology · 2025Article
- Therapeutic progress in the targeting of B cells in lupus nephritis: pathogenesis to clinical research.International urology and nephrology · 2025Review
- Lupus nephritis.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
- Targeting B and T Lymphocyte Attenuator Regulates Lupus Disease Development in NZB/W Mice.ImmunoTargets and therapy · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of APRIL in autoimmunity: implications for therapeutic targeting in systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren's syndrome.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Traditional Chinese medicine for lupus nephritis: modulation of autoimmune pathogenesis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Revolutionizing Autoimmune Kidney Disease Treatment with Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell Therapy.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- METTL3 facilitates kidney injury through promoting IRF4-mediated plasma cell infiltration via an m6A-dependent manner in systemic lupus erythematosus.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Tubular expression of Toll-like receptor 9 in lupus and primary membranous nephropathy.La Tunisie medicale · 2024Article
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Abstract
Autoantibodies are central to the pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus. Plasma cells secrete these autoantibodies, but the anatomical sites of these cells are not well defined. Here, we found that although dsDNA-specific plasma cells in NZB/W mice were present in spleen and bone marrow, a large number were in the kidneys and their number correlated with the serum dsDNA-IgG titer. We observed renal plasma cells only in mice with nephritis, where they located mainly to the tubulointerstitium of the cortex and outer medulla. These cells had the phenotypic characteristics of fully differentiated plasma cells and, similar to long-lived bone marrow plasma cells, they were not in cell cycle. In patients with lupus nephritis, plasma cells were often present in the medulla in those with the most severe disease, especially combined proliferative and membranous lupus nephritis. The identification of the kidney as a major site of autoreactive plasma cells has implications for our understanding of the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis and for strategies to deplete autoreactive plasma cells, a long-standing therapeutic aim.
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