Research Publications

Duffy L, Henderson J, Brown M, Pryzborski S, Fullard N, Summa L, Distler JHW, Stratton R, O'Reilly S. Bone Morphogenetic Protein Antagonist Gremlin-1 Increases Myofibroblast Transition in Dermal Fibroblasts: Implications for Systemic Sclerosis. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jun 4;9:681061.

Hughes M, Heal C, Henes J, Balbir-Gurman A, Distler JHW, Airò P, Müller-Ladner U, Hunzelmann N, Kerzberg E, Rudnicka L, Truchetet ME, Stebbings S, Tanaka Y, Hoffman-Vold AM, Gabrielli A, Distler O, Matucci-Cerinic M; EUSTAR Collaborators. Digital pitting scars are associated with a severe disease course and death in systemic sclerosis: a study from the EUSTAR cohort. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 Jun 19. Online ahead of print.

Stojanović SD, Fuchs M, Liang C, Schmidt K, Xiao K, Just A, Pfanne A, Pich A, Warnecke G, Braubach P, Petzold C, Jonigk D, Distler JHW, Fiedler J, Thum T, Kunz M. Reconstruction of the miR-506-Quaking axis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis using integrative multi-source bioinformatics. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 14;11(1):12456. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89531-7.

Acosta-Herrera M, Kerick M, Lopéz-Isac E, Assassi S, Beretta L, Simeón-Aznar CP, Ortego-Centeno N; International SSc Group incl. Distler JHW, Proudman SM; Australian Scleroderma Interest Group (ASIG), Hunzelmann N, Moroncini G, de Vries-Bouwstra JK, Orozco G, Barton A, Herrick AL, Terao C, Allanore Y, Brown MA, Radstake TR, Fonseca C, Denton CP, Mayes MD, Martin J. Comprehensive analysis of the major histocompatibility complex in systemic sclerosis identifies differential HLA associations by clinical and serological subtypes. Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Apr 1. Online ahead of print.