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List of works by Barbara Tolusso

A vascular endothelial growth factor deficiency characterises scleroderma lung disease.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Allele *2 of the HS1,2A enhancer of the Ig regulatory region associates with rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 24 October 2008

Amplifying the concept of psoriatic arthritis: The role of autoimmunity in systemic psoriatic disease

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Analysis of response to infliximab in ankylosing spondylitis according to the axial and/or peripheral involvement: autoantibodies and drop outs are more frequent in the peripheral subset

scientific article published on March 2007

Anti-LL37 Antibodies Are Present in Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) Patients: New Biomarkers in PsA

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

B cell depletion in diffuse progressive systemic sclerosis: safety, skin score modification and IL-6 modulation in an up to thirty-six months follow-up open-label trial

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B cell depletion may lead to normalization of anti-platelet, anti-erythrocyte and antiphospholipid antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus

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B cells in systemic sclerosis: a possible target for therapy

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B-cell subsets in the joint compartments of seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and No-RA arthritides express memory markers and ZAP70 and characterize the aggregate pattern irrespectively of the autoantibody status.

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Basic Immunology may lead to translational therapeutic rationale:: SARS-CoV-2 and Rheumatic Diseases

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Basophilactivation and serum IL-5 levelsaspossible monitor biomarkers in severe eosinophilicasthmapatientstreated with anti-IL-5 drugs

scientific article published on 25 October 2020

Biomarkers of good EULAR response to the B cell depletion therapy in all seropositive rheumatoid arthritis patients: clues for the pathogenesis

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Biomolecular features of inflammation in obese rheumatoid arthritis patients: management considerations

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Body weight, gender and response to TNF-α blockers in axial spondyloarthritis

scientific article published on 9 January 2014

Characterization of inflammatory cell infiltrate of scleroderma skin: B cells and skin score progression.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Chemerin and PEDF Are Metaflammation-Related Biomarkers of Disease Activity and Obesity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scholarly article by Barbara Tolusso et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Medicine

Clinical and ultrasonographic remission determines different chances of relapse in early and long standing rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 19 November 2010

Collagen Specific T-Cell Repertoire and HLA-DR Alleles: Biomarkers of Active Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Comment on: Emergence of severe spondyloarthropathy-related entheseal pathology following successful vedolizumab therapy for inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Concentrations of BAFF correlate with autoantibody levels, clinical disease activity, and response to treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published in July 2008

Correction to: Anti-Müllerian hormone serum levels in systemic lupus erythematosus patients: influence of the disease severity and therapy on the ovarian reserve

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Could we use a lower dose of rituximab to treat rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice: pros and cons?

scientific article published on 2 June 2016

Diagnostic performance of anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: the relevance of likelihood ratios

scholarly article by Donatello Pietrapertosa et al published 1 January 2010 in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Distinct synovial tissue macrophage subsets regulate inflammation and remission in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Do we need to apply a T2T strategy even in ACPA-negative early rheumatoid arthritis? YES

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Early vedolizumab trough levels predict treatment persistence over the first year in inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Erratum to: Serum IL-33, a new marker predicting response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Free light chains of immunoglobulins in patients with systemic sclerosis: correlations with lung involvement and inflammatory milieu

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Functional, radiological and biological markers of alveolitis and infections of the lower respiratory tract in patients with systemic sclerosis

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IL-1B and IL-1RN gene polymorphisms in rheumatoid arthritis: relationship with protein plasma levels and response to therapy

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Infections, B cell receptor activation and autoimmunity: different check-point impairments lead to autoimmunity, clonal B cell expansion and fibrosis in different immunological settings

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Interleukin-1β and interleukin-6 in arthritis animal models: roles in the early phase of transition from acute to chronic inflammation and relevance for human rheumatoid arthritis

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Is Citrullination Required for the Presence of Restricted Clonotypes Reacting With Type II Collagen? Comment on the Article by Chemin et al

JAK inhibition by methotrexate (and csDMARDs) may explain clinical efficacy as monotherapy and combination therapy

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Laboratory Monitoring of Biological Therapies in Rheumatology: The Role of Immunogenicity

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Loss of α2-6 sialylation promotes the transformation of synovial fibroblasts into a pro-inflammatory phenotype in arthritis

Measuring the T-cell down-regulation of TCR-zeta, ZAP-70 and CD28 in arthritis patients: An old tool for new biomarkers

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Memory B cell subsets and plasmablasts are lower in early than in long-standing rheumatoid arthritis

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MicroRNA-155 influences B-cell function through PU.1 in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

MicroRNA-155-at the Critical Interface of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Arthritis

scientific article published in January 2017

MicroRNA-34a dependent regulation of AXL controls the activation of dendritic cells in inflammatory arthritis

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Mononuclear cell response to lipopolysaccharide in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: relationship with tristetraprolin expression

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

No higher risk of respiratory symptoms in Italian rheumatological patients under IL-6R-inhibitor therapy in SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Obesity as a risk and severity factor in rheumatic diseases (autoimmune chronic inflammatory diseases).

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Overweight/obesity affects histological features and inflammatory gene signature of synovial membrane of Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

PTPN22 1858C>T polymorphism distribution in Europe and association with rheumatoid arthritis: case-control study and meta-analysis

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Paradoxical arthritis occurring during anti-TNF in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: histological and immunological features of a complex synovitis

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Pharmacogenetic of antirheumatic treatments: clinical implications.

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Pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics and antirheumatic drugs in rheumatology.

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Polymorphism of immunoglobulin enhancer element HS1,2A: allele *2 associates with systemic sclerosis. Comparison with HLA-DR and DQ allele frequency

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Polymorphisms of the IgH enhancer HS1.2 and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus

scholarly article by Domenico Frezza et al published 31 January 2012 in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Porphyromonas gingivalis and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: analysis of various compartments including the synovial tissue

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Prevalence and Determinants of Peripheral Microvascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study.

scientific article published in February 2018

Relationship between the tumor necrosis factor receptor II (TNF-RII) gene polymorphism and sTNF-RII plasma levels in healthy controls and in rheumatoid arthritis

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Rituximab Followed by Belimumab Controls Severe Lupus Nephritis and Bullous Pemphigoid in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Refractory to Several Combination Therapies

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Sarilumab use in severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Serum IL-33, a new marker predicting response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 13 December 2016

Should rheumatoid factor (RF) (and antinuclear antibodies (ANA)) become routinary screening test for morbidities in the general population?: From the concept of "benign autoimmunity "to the concept of" autoimmunity as a red flag in preventive medici

scientific article published on 08 April 2018

Skin ulcers in systemic sclerosis: Determinants of presence and predictive factors of healing

Switching from IFX originator to biosimilar CT-P13 does not impact effectiveness,safety and immunogenicity in a large cohort of IBD patients

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Synovial B cells of rheumatoid arthritis express ZAP-70 which increases the survival and correlates with the inflammatory and autoimmune phenotype.

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Synovial Predictors of Differentiation to Definite Arthritis in Patients With Seronegative Undifferentiated Peripheral Inflammatory Arthritis: microRNA Signature, Histological, and Ultrasound Features

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Synovial features of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in clinical and ultrasound remission differ under anti-TNF therapy: a clue to interpret different chances of relapse after clinical remission?

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Synovial fluid-derived T helper 17 cells correlate with inflammatory activity in arthritis, irrespectively of diagnosis.

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Tapering and discontinuation of TNF-α blockers without disease relapse using ultrasonography as a tool to identify patients with rheumatoid arthritis in clinical and histological remission

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The -670G>A polymorphism in the FAS gene promoter region influences the susceptibility to systemic sclerosis

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The B side of rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis

scientific article published on 28 September 2019

The Role of High-Mobility Group Box-1 and Its Crosstalk with Microbiome in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

The role of high-mobility group box protein 1 in collagen antibody-induced arthritis is dependent on vascular endothelial growth factor.

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring is More Cost-Effective than a Clinically Based Approach in the Management of Loss of Response to Infliximab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Observational Multicentre Study

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Thymosin β4 and β10 in Sjögren's syndrome: saliva proteomics and minor salivary glands expression.

scientific article published on 06 October 2016

Toll-like receptor 4 mediates endothelial cell activation through NF-κB but is not associated with endothelial dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor therapy in erosive polyarthritis secondary to systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha receptor II polymorphism in patients from southern Europe with mild-moderate and severe rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published in September 2002

Very early rheumatoid arthritis is the major predictor of major outcomes: clinical ACR remission and radiographic non-progression

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Weight Loss, The Obesity Paradox in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Is It a Paradox? Comment on the Article by Baker et al.

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

ZAP-70+ B Cell Subset Influences Response to B Cell Depletion Therapy and Early Repopulation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on September 15, 2012

−238 and +489 TNF-α along with TNF-RII gene polymorphisms associate with the diffuse phenotype in patients with Systemic Sclerosis

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