Old drugs as new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases

F Durães, M Pinto, E Sousa - Pharmaceuticals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are increasing in number, given that the general global
population is becoming older. They manifest themselves through mechanisms that are not …

Reviewing the significance of blood–brain barrier disruption in multiple sclerosis pathology and treatment

R Balasa, L Barcutean, O Mosora, D Manu - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The disruption of blood–brain barrier (BBB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis has a
double effect: early on during the onset of the immune attack and later for the CNS self …

DEEPScreen: high performance drug–target interaction prediction with convolutional neural networks using 2-D structural compound representations

AS Rifaioglu, E Nalbat, V Atalay, MJ Martin… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The identification of physical interactions between drug candidate compounds and target
biomolecules is an important process in drug discovery. Since conventional screening …

Targeting nucleotide metabolism as the nexus of viral infections, cancer, and the immune response

Y Ariav, JH Ch'ng, HR Christofk, N Ron-Harel… - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Virus-infected cells and cancers share metabolic commonalities that stem from their
insatiable need to replicate while evading the host immune system. These similarities …

Vaccination and immunotherapies in neuroimmunological diseases

A Winkelmann, M Loebermann, M Barnett… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroimmunological diseases and their treatment compromise the immune system, thereby
increasing the risk of infections and serious illness. Consequently, vaccinations to protect …

Effect of oral cladribine on time to conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis in patients with a first demyelinating event (ORACLE MS): a phase 3 randomised …

TP Leist, G Comi, BAC Cree, PK Coyle… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Patients who develop relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) present with a
first clinical demyelinating event. In this double-blind, multicentre, randomised, phase 3 …

Cladribine treatment of multiple sclerosis is associated with depletion of memory B cells

B Ceronie, BM Jacobs, D Baker, N Dubuisson… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background The mechanism of action of oral cladribine, recently licensed for relapsing
multiple sclerosis, is unknown. Objective To determine whether cladribine depletes memory …

Sustained disease-activity-free status in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis treated with cladribine tablets in the CLARITY study: a post-hoc and …

G Giovannoni, S Cook, K Rammohan… - The Lancet …, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background On the basis of various clinical and MRI measurements, the phase 3 Cladribine
Tablets Treating Multiple Sclerosis Orally (CLARITY) study in patients with relapsing …

Cladribine Tablets for Relapsing–Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: A Clinician's Review

G Giovannoni, J Mathews - Neurology and therapy, 2022 - Springer
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease characterized by
inflammation and demyelination for which there is currently no cure; therefore, the aim of …

Pulsed immune reconstitution therapy in multiple sclerosis

PS Sorensen, F Sellebjerg - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Whereas drugs used for maintenance/escalation therapy do not maintain their beneficial
effect after cessation of therapy, some new highly effective therapies can show prolonged …