Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Remodeling articular immune homeostasis with an efferocytosis-informed nanoimitator mitigates rheumatoid arthritis in mice

  • Shengchang Zhang,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Weiqiang Jing,
  • Qihao Chai,
  • Chunwei Tang,
  • Ziyang Li,
  • Zhentao Man,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Zhenmei Yang,
  • Maosen Han,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Xia Wei,
  • Jun Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Mohnad Abdalla,
  • Gongchang Yu,
  • Bin Shi,
  • Yuankai Zhang,
  • Kun Zhao,
  • Xinyi Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36468-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Proinflammatory macrophages are involved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here the authors use an efferocytosis-mimetic self-deliverable nanoimitator to mitigate RA by targeted reprogramming of synovial inflammatory macrophages, reducing proinflammatory cytokines and reinstating articular immune homeostasis.