Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a severe rheumatic disease causing fibrotic tissue rearrangement. Aberrant toll-like receptor (TLR) 8 transcripts in plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) were recently linked to SSc pathogenesis, which is at least partially mediated by increased type I interferon (IFN-I) responses. Here, we addressed the functional role of TLR8 signaling in different immune cell subsets of patients with SSc.
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