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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
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
JDCBS, Syntakas, AE, Kartawinata, M, Evans, NML, Nguyen, HD, Papadopoulou, C, Obaidi, MA, Pilkington, C, Glackin, Y, Mahony, CB, Croft, AP, Eaton, S, Cortina-Borja, M, Ogunbiyi, O, Merve, A, Wedderburn, LR & Wilkinson, MGL 2025, 'Spatial transcriptomic analysis of muscle biopsy from patients with treatment-naive juvenile dermatomyositis reveals mitochondrial abnormalities despite disease-related interferon-driven signature', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ard.2025.07.015
Bolton, C, Mahony, CB, Clay, E, Reis Nisa, P, Lomholt, S, Hackland, A, Chin, PS, Smith, CG, Alexiou, V, Nguyen, HD, Thyagarajan, M, Sheikh, Z, Davis, P, Chippington, S, Compeyrot-Lacassagne, S, Davda, S, Foley, C, Turtsevich, I, Ingledow, B, Kupiec, K, Kelly, J, Hanlon, MM, DiCarlo, E, Jones, LJ, Smith, SL, Eyre, S, Neag, G, Kemble, S, Madhu, R, Palshikar, MG, Korsunsky, I, Gao, C, Tran, M, Dendrou, C, Buckley, CD, Coles, MC, Raza, K, MAPJAG Study Group, Gravallese, E, Filer, A, Wei, K, Al-Abadi, E, Rosser, EC, Wedderburn, LR & Croft, A 2025, 'Synovial tissue atlas in juvenile idiopathic arthritis reveals pathogenic niches associated with disease severity', Science Translational Medicine, vol. 17, no. 805, eadt6050. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.adt6050
Rauber, S, Mohammadian, H, Schmidkonz, C, Atzinger, A, Soare, A, Treutlein, C, Kemble, S, Mahony, CB, Geisthoff, M, Angeli, MR, Raimondo, MG, Xu, C, Yang, K-T, Lu, L, Labinsky, H, Saad, MSA, Gwellem, CA, Chang, J, Huang, K, Kampylafka, E, Knitza, J, Bilyy, R, Distler, JHW, Hanlon, MM, Fearon, U, Veale, DJ, Roemer, FW, Bäuerle, T, Maric, HM, Maschauer, S, Ekici, AB, Buckley, CD, Croft, AP, Kuwert, T, Prante, O, Cañete, JD, Schett, G & Ramming, A 2024, 'CD200+ fibroblasts form a pro-resolving mesenchymal network in arthritis', Nature Immunology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01774-4
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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
Bolton, C & Croft, AP 2024, 'All fibroblasts are equal, but some are more equal than others', Nature Reviews Rheumatology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-024-01097-6
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
Mueller, AA, Zou, AE, Marsh, L-J, Kemble, S, Nayar, S, Watts, GFM, Murphy, CL, Taylor, E, Major, T, Gardner, D, Buckley, CD, Wei, K, Raychaudhuri, S, Korsunsky, I, Filer, A, Croft, AP & Brenner, MB 2025 'Wnt signaling drives stromal inflammation in inflammatory arthritis' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.631510
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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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