Diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis: a review

MP McGinley, CH Goldschmidt, AD Rae-Grant - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease
of the central nervous system characterized by inflammatory demyelination with axonal …

B cell depletion therapies in autoimmune disease: advances and mechanistic insights

DSW Lee, OL Rojas, JL Gommerman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
In the past 15 years, B cells have been rediscovered to be not merely bystanders but rather
active participants in autoimmune aetiology. This has been fuelled in part by the clinical …

Heterogeneity of meningeal B cells reveals a lymphopoietic niche at the CNS borders

S Brioschi, WL Wang, V Peng, M Wang, I Shchukina… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The meninges are a three-layer membrane that covers the central nervous
system (CNS): The outermost layer, the dura mater, is attached onto the skull periosteum; …

Treatment of multiple sclerosis: a review

SL Hauser, BAC Cree - The American journal of medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of
the central nervous system, and the leading cause of nontraumatic neurological disability in …

[HTML][HTML] Ublituximab versus teriflunomide in relapsing multiple sclerosis

L Steinman, E Fox, HP Hartung, E Alvarez… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The monoclonal antibody ublituximab enhances antibody-dependent cellular
cytolysis and produces B-cell depletion. Ublituximab is being evaluated for the treatment of …

B cells in multiple sclerosis—from targeted depletion to immune reconstitution therapies

MT Cencioni, M Mattoscio, R Magliozzi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasing evidence indicates the involvement of B cells in the pathogenesis of multiple
sclerosis (MS), but their precise roles are unclear. In this Review, we provide an overview of …

Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors for multiple sclerosis

J Krämer, A Bar-Or, TJ Turner, H Wiendl - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Current therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) reduce both relapses and relapse-associated
worsening of disability, which is assumed to be mainly associated with transient infiltration of …

Safety and efficacy of tolebrutinib, an oral brain-penetrant BTK inhibitor, in relapsing multiple sclerosis: a phase 2b, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

DS Reich, DL Arnold, P Vermersch, A Bar-Or… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Tolebrutinib is an oral, CNS-penetrant, irreversible inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine
kinase, an enzyme expressed in B lymphocytes and myeloid cells including microglia, which …

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 …

Role of B cells in multiple sclerosis and related disorders

G Comi, A Bar‐Or, H Lassmann, A Uccelli… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The success of clinical trials of selective B‐cell depletion in patients with relapsing multiple
sclerosis (MS) and primary progressive MS has led to a conceptual shift in the …