Multiple sclerosis: mechanisms and immunotherapy

C Baecher-Allan, BJ Kaskow, HL Weiner - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease triggered by environmental factors that act
on a genetically susceptible host. It features three clinical stages: a pre-clinical stage …

Progressive multiple sclerosis: from pathophysiology to therapeutic strategies

S Faissner, JR Plemel, R Gold, VW Yong - Nature reviews drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that
involves demyelination and axonal degeneration. Although substantial progress has been …

Microglia in multiple sclerosis: Protectors turn destroyers

VW Yong - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglia are implicated in all stages of multiple sclerosis (MS). Microglia alterations are
detected by positron emission tomography in people living with MS prior to the formation of …

Mechanism-based criteria to improve therapeutic outcomes in progressive multiple sclerosis

HYF Yong, VW Yong - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
In contrast to the multiple disease-modifying therapies that are available for relapsing–
remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), the therapeutic options for progressive MS (PMS) are …

Ageing and multiple sclerosis

JS Graves, KM Krysko, LH Hua, M Absinta… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
The factor that is most relevant and strongly associated with the clinical course of multiple
sclerosis is chronological age. Very young patients exclusively have relapsing remitting …

Central nervous system macrophages in progressive multiple sclerosis: relationship to neurodegeneration and therapeutics

E Kamma, W Lasisi, C Libner, HS Ng… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
There are over 15 disease-modifying drugs that have been approved over the last 20 years
for the treatment of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), but there are limited …

Pleiotropic effects of statins on the cardiovascular system

A Oesterle, U Laufs, JK Liao - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
The statins have been used for 30 years to prevent coronary artery disease and stroke. Their
primary mechanism of action is the lowering of serum cholesterol through inhibiting hepatic …

Treatment of multiple sclerosis—success from bench to bedside

M Tintore, A Vidal-Jordana… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The modern era of multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment began 25 years ago, with the approval
of IFNβ and glatiramer acetate for the treatment of relapsing–remitting MS. Ten years later …

Fibrinogen in neurological diseases: mechanisms, imaging and therapeutics

MA Petersen, JK Ryu, K Akassoglou - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The blood coagulation protein fibrinogen is deposited in the brain in a wide range of
neurological diseases and traumatic injuries with blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption …

Deep gray matter volume loss drives disability worsening in multiple sclerosis

A Eshaghi, F Prados, WJ Brownlee… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Gray matter (GM) atrophy occurs in all multiple sclerosis (MS) phenotypes. We
investigated whether there is a spatiotemporal pattern of GM atrophy that is associated with …