Scholarship 20/11677-5 - Reumatologia, Doenças periodontais - BV FAPESP
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Analysis of the immune profile of saliva and serum of patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome

Grant number: 20/11677-5
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Start date until: September 01, 2020
End date until: February 28, 2023
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Medicine - Medical Clinics
Principal Investigator:Sandra Gofinet Pasoto
Grantee:Giordano Bruno Henriques Deveza
Host Institution: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Associated research grant:15/03756-4 - Assessment of relevance of blood levels of drugs in the monitoring rheumatic autoimmune diseases: safety, effectiveness and adherence to therapy, AP.TEM

Abstract

Primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease, which mainly affects the lacrimal and salivary glands, leading to sicca syndrome. pSS has a probable autoimmune etiology, with the production of several autoantibodies such as antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-Ro/SS-A, anti-La/SS-B, rheumatoid factor (RF) and cryoglobulins. Recently, our group described a high frequency of antibodies directed to DNase I in the serum of pSS patients and these antibodies were associated with the presence of the anti-Epstein-Barr (EBV) early antigen diffuse (anti-EA-D). This finding becomes interesting considering the recent description of reduction of DNase I activity in the tear of patients with xerophthalmia of different causes, which would result in an accumulation of extracellular DNA and neutrophilic inflammatory infiltrate on the ocular surface. This hypothesis is reinforced by the observation that treatment with DNase I as eye drops results in clinical improvement of dry eye. In addition, it has been shown that periodontal disease is an aggravating factor of xerostomia in pSS, as it leads to a chronic inflammatory process and, consequently, to the destruction of minor salivary glands. Therefore, the objective of the present study will be to evaluate the presence of antibodies directed to DNase I in the saliva and serum of pSS patients and its possible capacity of inhibition of the enzyme. Such findings will be correlated with the presence of periodontal disease, with the glandular and extraglandular manifestations of SSp and also with the presence of EBV DNA in the serum and oral lavage of these patients. (AU)

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
PASOTO, SANDRA GOFINET; HALPERN, ARI STIEL RADU; NORONHA GUEDES, LISSIANE KARINE; MEDEIROS RIBEIRO, ANA CRISTINA; FIGUEIREDO YUKI, EMILY NEVES; SCHAHIN SAAD, CARLA GONCALVES; ALMEIDA DA SILVA, CLOVIS ARTUR; KANDA KUPA, LEONARD DE VINCI; BETANCOURT VILLAMARIN, LORENA ELIZABETH; DE OLIVEIRA MARTINS, VICTOR ADRIANO; et al. Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in primary Sjogren's syndrome: humoral response, safety, and effects on disease activity. CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY, v. 41, n. 7, p. 11-pg., . (20/11677-5, 20/09367-8, 19/17272-0, 17/14352-7, 15/03756-4, 18/09937-9, 21/08455-3)
MEDEIROS-RIBEIRO, ANA C.; AIKAWA, NADIA E.; SAAD, CARLA G. S.; YUKI, EMILY F. N.; PEDROSA, TATIANA; FUSCO, SOLANGE R. G.; ROJO, PRISCILA T.; PEREIRA, ROSA M. R.; SHINJO, SAMUEL K.; ANDRADE, DANIELI C. O.; et al. Immunogenicity and safety of the CoronaVac inactivated vaccine in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a phase 4 trial. Nature Medicine, v. 27, n. 10, . (18/09937-9, 17/14352-7, 19/21173-7, 15/03756-4, 20/11677-5)

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