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Laparoscopic Posterior Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy for Distal Pancreatic Carcinoma

Distal pancreatic carcinoma is a highly malignant tumor with strong invasiveness, often growing to the edge of the pancreas and penetrating the pancreatic ...

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Y-90 Radioembolization and PD-1 Inhibitor as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

This study showcases a comprehensive treatment protocol for high-risk hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, focusing on the combined use of Y-90 ...

the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University

jinan university

Recent studies have demonstrated a central role for plasma cells in the development of autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Currently, both the phenotypic features and functional regulation of autoreactive plasma cells during SLE pathogenesis remain largely unclear. In this study, we first found that a major subset of IL-17 receptor-expressing plasma cells potently produced anti-dsDNA IgG upon IL-17A (IL-17) stimulation in SLE patients and lupus mice. Using a humanized lupus mouse model, we showed that the transfer of Th17 cell-depleted PBMCs from lupus patients resulted in a significantly reduced plasma cell response and attenuated renal damage in recipient mice compared to the transfer of total SLE PBMCs. Moreover, long-term BrdU incorporation in lupus mice detected highly enriched long-lived BrdU subsets among IL-17 receptor-expressing plasma cells. Lupus mice deficient in IL-17 or IL-17 receptor C (IL-17RC) exhibited a diminished plasma cell response and reduced autoantibody production with attenuated renal damage, while the adoptive transfer of Th17 cells triggered the plasma cell response and renal damage in IL-17-deficient lupus mice. In reconstituted chimeric mice, IL-17RC deficiency resulted in severely impaired plasma cell generation but showed no obvious effect on germinal center B cells. Further mechanistic studies revealed that IL-17 significantly promoted plasma cell survival via p38-mediated Bcl-xL transcript stabilization. Together, our findings identified a novel function of IL-17 in enhancing plasma cell survival for autoantibody production in lupus pathogenesis, which may provide new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of SLE.

IL-17 sustains the plasma cell response via p38-mediated Bcl-xL RNA stability in lupus pathogenesis.

This study aims to determine a role of interleukin-17A (IL-17) in salivary gland (SG) dysfunction and therapeutic effects of targeting IL-17 in SG for treating autoimmune sialadenitis in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).

Quan Jiang

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery

the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University

Laparoscopic Posterior Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy for Distal Pancreatic Carcinoma

Y-90 Radioembolization and PD-1 Inhibitor as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma