Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Infectious Diseases, Department of Mental and Physical Health, Campania University, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: giovannibattista.gaeta@unicampania.it.
Liver Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Liver Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Liver Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Insitute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Liver Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Insitute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Liver Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Insitute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Liver Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by painful inflamed nodules, abscesses, and pus-draining tunnels appearing in axillary, inguinal, and perianal skin areas....
This study aimed to characterize mediators that support lesional B/plasma cell persistence in HS....
Skin samples from several cohorts of HS patients and control cohorts were assessed by mRNA sequencing, quantitative PCR on reverse-transcribed RNA, flow cytometry, and immunohistofluorescence. Blood p...
Proportions of B/plasma cells, neutrophils, CD8...
Neutrophil-derived BAFF supports B/plasma cell persistence and function in HS lesions....
Liver cirrhosis (LC) involves B cells that produce anti-glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa antibodies, found in primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). The role of autoimmunity in the pathology of thrombocytop...
B-cell activating factor (BAFF) is a crucial cytokine for differentiation and survival of B-cells and correlates to disease activity in some auto-immune diseases. To evaluate BAFF as a biomarker for d...
Neurosarcoidosis (NS) is a severe complication of sarcoidosis. Patients with NS often have poor outcomes. To improve both the quality of life and prognosis in patients with NS, accurate and reliable m...
We studied 20 patients with NS and 14 control subjects. We measured CSF BAFF levels in all subjects and investigated the relationship with clinical findings, serum and CSF measures, and magnetic reson...
CSF BAFF levels were significantly increased in patients with NS compared with controls (median 0.089 vs 0.04 ng/mL, p = 0.0005). CSF BAFF values were correlated with CSF findings-cell count, protein,...
CSF BAFF may aid the quantitative evaluation of NS and may serve as a biomarker for this disease....
Immune dysregulation is thought to contribute to chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) risk, but biological mechanisms are unclear. We discovered that increased serum levels of B-cell activating factor (...
The aim of this case-control study was to evaluate the association between the TNFSF13B rs9514828 (-871 C > T) polymorphism and soluble BAFF (sBAFF) in apical periodontitis (AP) patients....
Two hundred and sixty one healthy subjects (HS) and 158 patients with AP classified as: 46 acute apical abscess (AAA), 81 primary AP (pAP) and 31 secondary AP (sAP) patients were included. Genomic DNA...
No differences in the genotype/allele frequencies were shown between HS and patients with AAA. However, the TT genotype (OR = 2.68, 95% CI: 1.10-6.53; p = .025) and T allele (OR = 1.46, 95% CI: 1.00-2...
These results suggest that the TNFSF13B rs9514828 (-871 C > T) polymorphism is associated with pAP susceptibility and that BAFF is a cytokine that might be involved in acute and chronic AP. The future...
We examined whether serum B cell activating factor (BAFF) is useful for predicting the remission of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) following rituximab treatment...
Immune pathogenesis of nephrotic syndrome (NS) is not completely understood. We aimed to evaluate the expression of B-cell activating factor (BAFF) and its receptors in renal samples from pediatric NS...
We conducted an ambispective study on 33 patients with pediatric NS. Immunohistochemistry for BAFF, TACI, BCMA and BR3 was performed. Markers were evaluated on podocytes and interstitial inflammatory ...
Thirty-three NS patients were included. Minimal change disease was seen in 21 (63.6%) patients, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in 12 (36.4%). BAFF was found in podocytes (18.2% of samples) and...
BAFF expression in renal biopsies could be a prognostic factor for renal function....
B-cell-activating factor (BAFF) is a crucial cytokine supporting survival and differentiation of B cells. Dysregulation of BAFF is involved in the pathogenesis of B-cell related autoimmune diseases in...
Binding of the B cell activating factor (BAFF) to its receptor (BAFFR) activates in mature B cells many essential pro-survival functions. Null mutations in the BAFFR gene result in complete BAFFR defi...
In addition to genetic association studies, the BAFFR variants P21R, A52T, G64V, DUP92-95, P146S, and H159Y were expressed by lentiviral gene transfer in DG-75 Burkitt's lymphoma cells and analyzed fo...
Binding of BAFF to BAFFR was affected by P21R and A52T. Spontaneous oligomerization of BAFFR was disturbed by P21R, A52T, G64V, and P146S. BAFF-dependent activation of NF-κB2 was reduced by P21R and P...
Although all variants change BAFFR function and have the potential to contribute as modifiers to the development of primary antibody deficiencies, autoimmunity, and lymphoma, P21R is the only variant ...