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Serum Calponin 3 Levels in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: Possible Association with Skin Sclerosis and Arthralgia.


ABSTRACT: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterized by tissue fibrosis and vasculopathy in various organs with a background of inflammation initiated by autoimmune abnormalities. Calponin 3 plays a role in the cell motility and contractibility of fibroblasts during wound healing in the skin. We aimed to evaluate serum calponin 3 levels in SSc patients and their association with clinical manifestations of SSc. Serum samples were collected from 68 patients with SSc and 20 healthy controls. Serum calponin 3 levels were examined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits, and their association with clinical features of SSc was statistically analyzed. The upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of serum calponin 3 levels in healthy controls was utilized as the cut-off value when dividing SSc patients into the elevated and normal groups. Serum calponin 3 levels were significantly higher in SSc patients than in healthy controls (mean (95% confidence interval), 15.38 (14.66-16.11) vs. 13.56 (12.75-14.38) ng/mL, p < 0.05). The modified Rodnan total skin thickness score was significantly higher in the elevated serum calponin 3 level group than in the normal level group (median (25-75th percentiles), 10.0 (2.0-16.0) vs. 6.5 (3.25-8.75), p < 0.05). Moreover, SSc patients with increased serum calponin 3 levels also had a higher frequency of arthralgia (40% vs. 9%, p < 0.05). Elevated serum calponin 3 levels were associated with skin sclerosis and arthralgia in SSc patients. Serum calponin 3 levels might be a biomarker that reflects the severity of skin sclerosis and joint involvement in SSc.

SUBMITTER: Kotani H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7828654 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Serum Calponin 3 Levels in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: Possible Association with Skin Sclerosis and Arthralgia.

Kotani Hirohito H   Yoshizaki Ayumi A   Matsuda Kazuki M KM   Norimatsu Yuta Y   Kuzumi Ai A   Fukayama Maiko M   Fukasawa Takemichi T   Ebata Satoshi S   Yoshizaki-Ogawa Asako A   Asano Yoshihide Y   Oba Koji K   Sato Shinichi S  

Journal of clinical medicine 20210114 2


Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterized by tissue fibrosis and vasculopathy in various organs with a background of inflammation initiated by autoimmune abnormalities. Calponin 3 plays a role in the cell motility and contractibility of fibroblasts during wound healing in the skin. We aimed to evaluate serum calponin 3 levels in SSc patients and their association with clinical manifestations of SSc. Serum samples were collected from 68 patients with SSc and 20 healthy  ...[more]

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