Division Publications
Bakewell C, Dugowson, C. Baker's Cyst in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2009 Sept;361(11): 1098.
Hughes GC, Martin D, Zhang K, Hudkins KL, Alpers CE, Clark EA, Elkon KB. Decrease in glomerulonephritis and Th1-associated autoantibody production after progesterone treatment in NZB/NZW mice. Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Jun;60(6):1775-84.
Rueda B, Broen J, Simeon C, Hesselstrand R, Diaz B, Suárez H, Ortego-Centeno N, Riemekasten G, Fonollosa V, Vonk MC, van den Hoogen FH, Sanchez-Román J, Aguirre-Zamorano MA, García-Portales R, Pros A, Camps MT, Gonzalez-Gay MA, Coenen MJ, Airo P, Beretta L, Scorza R, van Laar J, Gonzalez-Escribano MF, Nelson JL, Radstake TR, Martin J. The STAT4 gene influences the genetic predisposition to systemic sclerosis phenotype. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Jun 1;18(11):2071-7.
Nelson, JL. Naturally acquired microchimerism: for better or for worse. Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Jan;60(1):5-7.
Guthrie KA, Tishkevich NR, Nelson JL. Non-inherited maternal human leukocyte antigen alleles in susceptibility to familial rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009 Jan;68(1):107-9.
Santer DM, Yoshio T, Minota S, Möeller T, Elkon KB. Potent induction of interferon-a and chemokines by autoantibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neuropsychiatric lupus. J Immunol, 182:1192-1201. 2009.
Hughes GC, Thomas S, Li C, Kaja M, Clark EA. Progesterone regulates interferon-alpha production by plasmacytoid dendritic cells. J Immunol 2008;180:2029-2033.
Okamoto A, Fujio K, van Rooijen N, Tsuno NH, Takahashi K, Tsurui H, Hirose S, Elkon KB, Yamamoto K. Splenic phagocytes promote responses to nucleosomes in (NZB x NZW) F1 mice. J Immunol, 181:5264-5271, 2008.
Adams Waldorf KM, Nelson JL. Autoimmune disease during pregnancy and the microchimerism legacy of pregnancy. Immunol Invest. 2008;37(5):631-44.
Stevens AM, Hermes HM, Kiefer MM, Rutledge JC, Nelson JL. Chimeric Maternal Cells with Tissue-Specific Antigen Expression and Morphology are Common in Infant Tissues. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2008 Oct 21:1.
Martin DA, Zhang K, Kenkel J, Hughes G, Clark E, Davidson A, Elkon KB. Autoimmunity stimulated by adoptively transferred dendritic cells is initiated by both ab and gd T-cells but does not require MyD88 signaling. J Immunol 2007;179:5819-5828.
Gadi VK, Malone KE, Guthrie KA, Porter PL, Nelson JL. Case-control study of fetal microchimerism and breast cancer. PLoS One. 2008 Mar 5;3(3):e1706.
Nelson JL. Your cells are my cells. Sci Am. 2008 Feb;298(2):64-71.
Hughes GC, Clark EA. Regulation of dendritic cells by female sex steroids: relevance to immunity and autoimmunity. Autoimmunity 2007;40:470-481
Georgiev M, Agle LMA, Chu JL, Elkon KB, Ashany D. Mature dendritic cells readily break tolerance in normal mice but do not lead to disease expression. Arthritis Rheum. 52(1):225-38, 2005.
Simkin PA. Bone pain and pressure in osteoarthritic joints. Novartis Foundation Symposium 260:179-90, 2004.
Kim SJ, Elkon KB, Ma X. Transcriptional suppression of interleukin-12 gene expression following phagocytosis of apoptotic cells. Immunity 2004;21:643-53.
Jawaheer D, Seldin MF, Amos CI, Chen WV, Shigeta R, Etzel C, Damle A, Xiao X, Chen D, Lum RF, Monteiro J, Kern M, Criswell LA, Albani S, Nelson JL, Clegg DO, Pope R, Schroeder HW, Bridges SL, Pisetsky DS, Ward R, Kastner D, Wilder RL, Pincus T, Callahan LF, Flemming D, Wener MH, Gregersen PK for NARAC. Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: a replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families. Arthritis Rheum 48:906-916, 2003.
Stevens AM, Hermes H, Rutledge R, Buyon J, Nelson JL. Maternal microchimerism has myocardial tissue-specific phenotype in neonatal lupus congenital heart block. Lancet 362:1617-23, 2003.
Groh V, Bruhl A, El-Gabalawy H, Nelson JL, Spies T. Stimulation of T-cell autoreactivity by anomalous expression of NKG2D and its MIC ligands in rheumatoid arthritis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:9452-9457, 2003.
Kim SJ, Gershov D, Ma X, Brot N, Elkon KB. I-PLA(2) activation during apoptosis promotes the exposure of membrane lysophosphatidylcholine leading to binding by natural immunoglobulin M antibodies and complement activation. J Exp Med, 196: 655-665, 2002.
Gershov D, Kim S-J, Brot N, Elkon KB. C-reactive protein binds to apoptotic cells, protects the cells from assembly of the terminal complement components and sustains an anti-inflammatory innate immune response: implications for systemic autoimmunity, J Exp Med, 192: 1353-1363, 2000.