Healthy adult and sJIA blood stimulation with innate immune ligands

The goal of this study was to characterize altered inducible immune networks in Systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA), an IL-1-driven autoinflammatory disease of unknown etiology. To this end, we developed a high-throughput assay that quantifies the transcriptional and protein-level responses of blood leukocytes to innate stimuli. Herein, we report transcriptional data from healthy adult blood stimulated with 16 different conditions, including TLR ligands, cytosolic receptor ligands and inflammatory cytokines. We further report blood transcriptional profiles from sJIA patients with various disease activity and treatment statuses, both ex vivo (baseline) and after in vitro stimulation with a subset of innate stimuli including heat-killed bacterial pathogens.

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