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 …

Neuroinflammation: the devil is in the details

DJ DiSabato, N Quan, JP Godbout - Journal of neurochemistry, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is significant interest in understanding inflammatory responses within the brain and
spinal cord. Inflammatory responses that are centralized within the brain and spinal cord are …

A noninflammatory mRNA vaccine for treatment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

C Krienke, L Kolb, E Diken, M Streuber, S Kirchhoff… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The ability to control autoreactive T cells without inducing systemic immune suppression is
the major goal for treatment of autoimmune diseases. The key challenge is the safe and …

Astrocyte barriers to neurotoxic inflammation

MV Sofroniew - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Astrocytes form borders (glia limitans) that separate neural from non-neural tissue along
perivascular spaces, meninges and tissue lesions in the CNS. Transgenic loss-of-function …

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: current insights into the disease pathophysiology, diagnosis and management

W Ambrosius, S Michalak, W Kozubski… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-associated disease (MOGAD) is a rare,
antibody-mediated inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system …

An update on immunopathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of multiple sclerosis

N Garg, TW Smith - Brain and behavior, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Multiple sclerosis is an acquired demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system. It is the second most common cause of disability in adults in United States after head …

The blood-brain barrier: an engineering perspective

AD Wong, M Ye, AF Levy, JD Rothstein… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
It has been more than 100 years since Paul Ehrlich reported that various water-soluble dyes
injected into the circulation did not enter the brain. Since Ehrlich's first experiments, only a …

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) as a model for multiple sclerosis (MS)

CS Constantinescu, N Farooqi… - British journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is the most commonly used
experimental model for the human inflammatory demyelinating disease, multiple sclerosis …

Sex and gender issues in multiple sclerosis

HF Harbo, R Gold, M Tintoré - Therapeutic advances in …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is universally found to be more prevalent in women than men. This
has led to extensive studies of differences in the immune system or nervous system between …

Fumaric acid esters exert neuroprotective effects in neuroinflammation via activation of the Nrf2 antioxidant pathway

RA Linker, DH Lee, S Ryan, AM van Dam, R Conrad… - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Inflammation and oxidative stress are thought to promote tissue damage in multiple
sclerosis. Thus, novel therapeutics enhancing cellular resistance to free radicals could prove …