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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2024

Joint-specific memory, resident memory T cells and the rolling window of opportunity in arthritis.

Margaret H Chang, Robert C Fuhlbrigge, Peter A Nigrovic

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. The joint accumulation model of arthritis.Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Margaret H ChangDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Robert C FuhlbriggeDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Peter A NigrovicDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. peter.nigrovic@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2126-3702
Boston Children's Hospital · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Joint Biology Consortium Resource-based CenterP30AR070253 · NIAMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Peter A Nigrovic, Jeffrey Andrew Sparks · 2016 to 2026
$9.4M
Core 2 - Mucosal Immunobiology Core (MIC)P30AR079369 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Vernon Michael Holers · 2021 to 2026
$4.7M
Bridging the gap between GWAS and mechanism in JIAR01AR073201 · NIAMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Peter A Nigrovic · 2019 to 2026
$3.2M
T resident memory cells in arthritisR01AR075906 · NIAMS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI NIGROVIC, PETER A · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
Development of resident memory T cells in the synoviumK08AR080992 · NIAMS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Margaret Chang · 2022 to 2026
$867k
NIAMS NIH HHS K08 AR080992NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR070253NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR079369NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR073201NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR075906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis, the immune system targets certain joints but not others. The pattern of joints affected varies by disease and by individual, with flares most commonly involving joints that were previously inflamed. This phenomenon, termed joint-specific memory, is difficult to explain by systemic immunity alone. Mechanisms of joint-specific memory include the involvement of synovial resident memory T cells that remain in the joint during remission and initiate localized disease recurrence. In addition, arthritis-induced durable changes in synovial fibroblasts and macrophages can amplify inflammation in a site-specific manner. Together with ongoing systemic processes that promote extension of arthritis to new joints, these local factors set the stage for a stepwise progression in disease severity, a paradigm for arthritis chronicity that we term the joint accumulation model. Although durable drug-free remission through early treatment remains elusive for most forms of arthritis, the joint accumulation paradigm defines new therapeutic targets, emphasizes the importance of sustained treatment to prevent disease extension to new joints, and identifies a rolling window of opportunity for altering the natural history of arthritis that extends well beyond the initiation phase of disease.

Indexed as

Arthritis, RheumatoidMemory T CellsAnimalsArthritisDisease ProgressionHumansImmunologic MemoryJointsSynovial Membrane

Identifiers

PMID38600215
PMCPMC11295581
OpenAlexW4394675533

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