Current concepts in multiple sclerosis therapy

L Sedal, A Winkel, J Laing, LY Law… - Degenerative …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past 20 years, the available therapies for multiple sclerosis have expanded
exponentially. With several more agents likely to be approved for public funding in Australia …

AB cell-driven autoimmune pathway leading to pathological hallmarks of progressive multiple sclerosis in the marmoset experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis …

BA 't Hart, J Dunham, BW Faber, JD Laman… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The absence of pathological hallmarks of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) in commonly
used rodent models of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) hinders the …

An update on cladribine for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

T Holmøy, Ø Torkildsen, KM Myhr - Expert Opinion on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Despite recent progress, currently available therapies for relapsing remitting
multiple sclerosis (MS) are only partly effective, and their use is limited by tolerability and …

Advancing trial design in progressive multiple sclerosis

RJ Fox, J Chataway - Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The failure of a majority of clinical trials in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) has
highlighted the need to reconsider how these trials are designed and conducted, and many …

Multiple functional therapeutic effects of TnP: A small stable synthetic peptide derived from fish venom in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis

EN Komegae, TAM Souza, LZ Grund, C Lima… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The pathological condition of multiple sclerosis (MS) relies on innate and adaptive immunity.
New types of agents that beneficially modify the course of MS, stopping the progression and …

[HTML][HTML] It's time for combination therapies: in multiple sclerosis

J Avasarala - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The treatment of multiple sclerosis continues to evolve. However, even with the introduction
of B-cell depleting monoclonal antibodies, disability progression continues unabated since …

Infectious risk stratification in multiple sclerosis patients receiving immunotherapy

J Graf, VI Leussink, T Dehmel… - Annals of Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing number of potent treatments for multiple sclerosis warrants screening for
infections. To investigate the prevalence of infections in two independent German patient …

Monoclonal antibodies for relapsing multiple sclerosis: a review of recently marketed and late-stage agents

M Blinkenberg, P Soelberg Sørensen - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has improved considerably over the last
decade because of new insights into MS pathology and biotechnological advances. This …

The role of peripheral CNS-directed antibodies in promoting inflammatory CNS demyelination

S Kinzel, MS Weber - Brain Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
In central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS),
neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and related NMO-spectrum disorders (NMO-SD), a pathogenic …

To stop or not to stop disease modifying therapies in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, that is the question

E D'Amico, T Ziemssen, S Cottone - Expert Review of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The predominant clinical disease course of multiple sclerosis (MS) which can be treated
today by a variety of different disease-modifying treatments (DMT) is characterized by …