Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Monocytes/Macrophages in Autoinflammatory Diseases.

ABSTRACT: The concept of autoinflammation, first proposed in 1999, refers to a seemingly unprovoked episode of sterile inflammation manifesting as unexplained fever, skin rashes, and arthralgia. Autoinflammatory diseases are caused mainly by hereditary abnormalities of innate immunity, without the production of autoantibodies or autoreactive T cells. The revolutionary discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), whereby a patient's somatic cells can be reprogrammed into an embryonic pluripotent state by forced expression of a defined set of transcription factors, has the transformative potential to enable in vitro disease modeling and drug candidate screening, as well as to provide a resource for cell replacement therapy. Recent reports demonstrate that recapitulating a disease phenot

SUBMITTER: Tanaka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9120581 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature