Emerging fungal infections: new patients, new patterns, and new pathogens

DZP Friedman, IS Schwartz - Journal of Fungi, 2019 - mdpi.com
The landscape of clinical mycology is constantly changing. New therapies for malignant and
autoimmune diseases have led to new risk factors for unusual mycoses. Invasive …

Infectious complications of multiple sclerosis therapies: implications for screening, prophylaxis, and management

DJ Epstein, J Dunn, S Deresinski - Open forum infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sclerosis therapies include interferons, glatiramer, and multiple immunosuppressive
drugs. Discerning infectious risks of immunosuppressive drugs requires understanding their …

Sphingosine‐1‐phosphate receptors and innate immunity

AM Bryan, M Del Poeta - Cellular microbiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sphingosine‐1‐phosphate (S1P) is a signalling lipid that regulates many cellular
processes in mammals. One well‐studied role of S1P signalling is to modulate T‐cell …

Applications of fluorine to the construction of bioisosteric elements for the purposes of novel drug discovery

P Richardson - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction There continues to be an exponential rise in the number of small molecule
drugs that contain either a fluorine atom or a fluorinated fragment. While the unique …

Molecular mechanisms of immunosenescene and inflammaging: relevance to the immunopathogenesis and treatment of multiple sclerosis

O Perdaens, V Van Pesch - Frontiers in neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aging is characterized, amongst other features, by a complex process of cellular
senescence involving both innate and adaptive immunity, called immunosenescence and …

The pathobiology of human fungal infections

GD Brown, ER Ballou, S Bates, EM Bignell… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Human fungal infections are a historically neglected area of disease research, yet they
cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of …

Managing the side effects of multiple sclerosis therapy: pharmacotherapy options for patients

PS Rommer, UK Zettl - Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated and neurodegenerative
disease with an unpredictable outcome. Immune-modulatory treatment aims at decreasing …

Infections in patients receiving multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapies

E Grebenciucova, A Pruitt - Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This paper will systemically review the risk of infections
associated with current disease-modifying treatments and will discuss pre-treatment testing …

Safety of newer disease modifying therapies in multiple sclerosis

G Jalkh, R Abi Nahed, G Macaron, M Rensel - Vaccines, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past decade, the therapeutic arsenal for multiple sclerosis has expanded greatly.
Newer more potent disease modifying therapies (DMTs) with varying mechanisms of actions …

The risk of infection in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with disease-modifying therapies: a Delphi consensus statement

L Moiola, V Barcella, S Benatti… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The risk of infection associated with immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive disease-
modifying drugs (DMDs) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been increasingly …