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Shen, Y, Benlabiod, C, Watson, E, Gurashi, K, Fower, A, Rodriguez-Romera, A, Reyat, JS, Adnan-Awad, S, Hargreaves, R, Kemble, S, Smith, CG, Croft, AP, Oppermann, U, Welsh, A, Murphy, L, Murphy, E, Moetazedian, A, Jooss, N, Wong, ZC, Rayes, J, Mead, AJ, Roy, A, Gooding, S, Psaila, B & Khan, AO 2026, 'comBO: A combined human bone and lympho-myeloid bone marrow organoid for preclinical modeling of hematopoietic disorders', Cell stem cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2026.01.010
Niven, J, Kucuk, S, Gope, A, Certo, M, Cassidy, FC, Arana Echarri, A, Ali, S, Ladoukakis, E, Vidali, S, Macchi, C, Amir, SS, Bergin, R, Davies, S, Perkin, OJ, Smith, J, Cucchi, D, Heneghan, H, Wijesinghe, S, Jenkins, BJ, Baig, S, Mahony, C, Chidomere, C, Sarkar, S, Nicolaou, A, Caamaño, J, Croft, A, Davies, E, Thompson, D, O’Shea, D, Jones, SW, Duggal, NA, Ruscica, M, Makarova, M, Jones, N, Da Silva Xavier, G, Geberhiwot, T, Turner, JE, Hogan, AE, Nedjai, B & Mauro, C 2026, 'DNA methylation-mediated memory of obesity in CD4 T lymphocytes perpetuates immune dysregulation', EMBO Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00765-w
Wahid, M, Kemble, S, Abudu, O, Saviano, A, Mahony, C, Lewis, JW, Nicholson, TA, Schettino, A, Marigliano, N, Frost, K, Begum, J, Urbanowski, AM, Limo, M, Jha, R, Jarquin, SM, Pezhman, L, Degan, AEA, Anderson, AE, Smith, CG, Batki, A, Adams, H, Caso, F, Scarpa, R, McInnes, I, Siebert, S, Pratt, AG, Filer, A, Raza, K, Croft, AP, Chimen, M, de Cogan, F, Rainger, GE, Iqbal, AJ, Maione, F & McGettrick, HM 2026, 'PEPITEM Regulates the Synovial Microenvironment During Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Arthritis to Limit Disease', Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken). https://doi.org/10.1002/art.70108
Raimondo, MG, Mohammadian, H, Angeli, MR, Alivernini, S, Fedorchenko, V, Huang, K, Demmler, R, Rhein, P, Xu, C, Li, Y-N, Micheroli, R, Winter, Z, Rigau, AR, Anchang, CG, Soare, A, Luber, M, Labinsky, H, Chang, J, Günther, C, Fearon, U, Veale, DJ, Ciccia, F, Rech, J, Sticherling, M, Bäuerle, T, Distler, JHW, Kurowska-Stolarska, MS, Mack, M, Ekici, AB, Croft, AP, Distler, O, Maric, HM, Ospelt, C, Cañete, JD, D'Agostino, MA, Schett, G, Rauber, S & Ramming, A 2026, 'Skin-derived myeloid precursors and joint-resident fibroblasts spread psoriatic disease from skin to joints', Nature Immunology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-025-02351-z
Bhamidipati, K, McIntyre, ABR, Kazerounian, S, Ce, G, Wong, SW, Tran, M, Prell, SA, Lau, R, Khedgikar, V, Altmann, C, Small, A, Madhu, R, Presti, SR, Anufrieva, KS, Blazar, PE, Lange, JK, Seifert, JA, Accelerating Medicines Partnership RA/SLE Network, Colorado Interdisciplinary Joint Biology Program (CUIJBP) Consortium, Moreland, LW, Croft, AP, Smith, MH, Donlin, LT, Lewis, MJ, Jonsson, AH, Pitzalis, C, Thomas, R, Gravallese, EM, Brenner, MB, Korsunsky, I, Wechalekar, MD & Wei, K 2026, 'Spatial patterning of fibroblast TGFβ signaling underlies treatment resistance in rheumatoid arthritis', Nature Immunology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 556-571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-025-02386-2
Schmidt, T, Mossberg, A, Król, P, Kapetanovic, MC, Einarsson, JT, Croft, AP, Bengtsson, AA, Kahn, F & Kahn, R 2026, 'Synovial fluid potentiates local fibroblasts to drive monocyte activation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis', Arthritis Research & Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-026-03776-z
Cartography Consortium, Liu, F, Shi, H, Turner, JD, Anscombe, R, Li, J, Sekine, T, Hammitzsch, A, Agarwal, D, Mahony, C, Chen, J, Kendrick, B, Du, D, Tong, Q, Duan, L, Dooley, K, Fang, H, Korsunsky, I, Madhu, R, Cribbs, AP, Friedrich, M, Marsden, BD, Chen, Y-L, Ogg, G, Adams, A, Chen, W, Leonardo, S, McCann, FE, Buckley, CD, Rooney, T, Freeman, T, Uhlig, HH, Dendrou, C, Croft, A, Filer, A, Bowness, P & Chen, L 2025, 'CD4+ tissue-resident memory Th17 cells are a major source of IL-17A in Spondyloarthritis synovial tissue', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 84, no. 7, pp. 1151-1163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ard.2025.04.018
Roche Fibroblast Network Consortium 2025, 'Molecular and spatial analysis of tertiary lymphoid structures in Sjogren's syndrome', Nature Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54686-0
Frost, K, Urbanowski, A, Neag, G, Lewis, JW, Northall, E, Kemble, S, Powell, E, Croft, AP, Iqbal, AJ, Rainger, GE, Edwards, JR, Naylor, AJ & McGettrick, HM 2025, 'PEPITEM and its tripeptide pharmacophores: Mechanisms of bone regulation and therapeutic potential in health and disease', Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, vol. 191, 118489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2025.118489
Comment/debate
Croft, AP, Campos, J, Jansen, K, Turner, JD, Marshall, J, Attar, M, Savary, L, Wehmeyer, C, Naylor, AJ, Kemble, S, Begum, J, Dürholz, K, Perlman, H, Barone, F, McGettrick, HM, Fearon, DT, Wei, K, Raychaudhuri, S, Korsunsky, I, Brenner, MB, Coles, M, Sansom, SN, Filer, A & Buckley, CD 2026, 'Author Correction: Distinct fibroblast subsets drive inflammation and damage in arthritis', Nature, vol. 649, no. 8096, pp. E2-E2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09783-5
Preprint
Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) RA/SLE Network 2025 'Functional and dysfunctional T regulatory cell states in human tissues in RA and other autoimmune arthritic diseases' bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.23.677874
Accelerating Medicines Partnership RA/SLE Network 2025 'Spatial patterning of fibroblast TGFβ signaling underlies treatment resistance in rheumatoid arthritis' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.14.642821
Review article
Karsdal, M, Cox, TR, Parker, AL, Willumsen, N, Sand, JMB, Jenkins, G, Hansen, HH, Oldenburger, A, Geillinger-Kaestle, KE, Larsen, AT, Black, D, Genovese, F, Eckersley, A, Heinz, A, Nyström, A, Holm Nielsen, S, Bennink, L, Johannsson, L, Bay-Jensen, A-C, Orange, DE, Friedman, S, Røpke, M, Fiore, V, Schuppan, D, Rieder, F, Simona, B, Borthwick, L, Skarsfeldt, M, Wennbo, H, Thakker, P, Stoffel, R, Clarke, GW, Kalluri, R, Ruane, D, Zannad, F, Mortensen, JH, Sinkeviciute, D, Sundberg, F, Coseno, M, Thudium, C, Croft, AP, Khanna, D, Cooreman, M, Broermann, A, Leeming, DJ, Mobasheri, A & Ricard-Blum, S 2025, 'Advances in Extracellular Matrix-Associated Diagnostics and Therapeutics', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 14, no. 6, 1856. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14061856
Croft, AP & Hackland, A 2025, 'Fibroblast heterogeneity in 2025', Nature Reviews Rheumatology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-025-01345-3
Singh, R & Croft, AP 2025, 'Navigating complications of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs at the 'front door'', Clinical Medicine, vol. 25, no. 5, 100504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100504
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