Publications by authors named "C Kaffa"
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- The study aimed to differentiate osteoarthritis (OA) patients by analyzing their serum-induced cellular signaling patterns, using samples from knee OA patients, hand OA patients, and healthy controls.
- Results showed significant differences in cellular pathway activity based on the type of OA, with hand OA serum triggering higher MAPK-related AP1 activity, while knee OA serum affected other pathways related to ELK1-SRF, STAT1-STAT2, and SOX9.
- The findings suggest that the underlying mechanisms of OA differ between hand and knee OA, potentially paving the way for more targeted treatments based on specific OA endotypes.
Podocytes play a central role in glomerular diseases such as (idiopathic) nephrotic syndrome (iNS). Glucocorticoids are the gold standard therapy for iNS. Nevertheless, frequent relapses are common.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is an inherited disorder characterized by the development of renal cysts, which frequently leads to renal failure. Hypertension and other cardiovascular symptoms contribute to the high morbidity and mortality of the disease. ADPKD is caused by mutations in the gene or, less frequently, in the gene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To comparatively analyse the aberrant affinity maturation of the antinuclear and rheumatoid factor (RF) B cell repertoires in blood and tissues of patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) using an integrated omics workflow.
Methods: Peptide sequencing of anti-Ro60, anti-Ro52, anti-La and RF was combined with B cell repertoire analysis at the DNA, RNA and single cell level in blood B cell subsets, affected salivary gland and extranodal marginal zone lymphomas of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) of patients with SjS.
Results: Affected tissues contained anti-Ro60, anti-Ro52, anti-La and RF clones as a small part of a polyclonal infiltrate.
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) represents the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that is still incurable in a large fraction of patients. Tetraspanin CD37 is highly expressed on mature B lymphocytes, and multiple CD37-targeting therapies are under clinical development for NHL. However, CD37 expression is nondetectable in ∼50% of DLBCL patients, which correlates with inferior treatment outcome, but the underlying mechanisms for differential CD37 expression in DLBCL are still unknown.
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