Clinically isolated syndromes

DH Miller, DT Chard, O Ciccarelli - The Lancet Neurology, 2012 - thelancet.com
Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) is a term that describes a first clinical episode with
features suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS). It usually occurs in young adults and affects …

Neurofilaments as biomarkers in multiple sclerosis

CE Teunissen, M Khalil - Multiple sclerosis journal, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Neurodegeneration is the correlate of disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS) and
thus biological biomarkers that sensitively reflect this process are much needed …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteome comparison between multiple sclerosis patients and controls

AC Kroksveen, A Guldbrandsen… - Acta Neurologica …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The aim of the present study was to identify proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
with different abundance between patients with relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis …

Chitinase 3-like 1 plasma levels are increased in patients with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis

E Cantó, F Reverter, C Morcillo-Suárez… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1) is upregulated in a wide variety of inflammatory
conditions. Recent studies have pointed to a role of CHI3L1 in multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Exacerbation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in the absence of breast regression protein 39/chitinase 3-like 1

D Bonneh-Barkay, G Wang… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We previously reported that YKL-40, the human analog of mouse breast regression protein
39 ([BRP-39] chitinase 3-like 1), is elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with a …

Proteomic identification of immunoproteasome accumulation in formalin-fixed rodent spinal cords with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

MR Jain, Q Li, T Liu, J Rinaggio, A Ketkar… - Journal of proteome …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Clinically relevant formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues have not been
widely used in neuroproteomic studies because many proteins are presumed to be …

Proteomic pattern analysis discriminates among multiple sclerosis–related disorders

M Komori, Y Matsuyama, T Nirasawa… - Annals of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To use a new, unbiased biomarker discovery strategy to obtain and assess
proteomic data from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Proteomics technologies for biomarker discovery in multiple sclerosis

V Singh, RQ Hintzen, TM Luider, MP Stoop - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2012 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis is a disabling inflammatory and neurodegenerative disorder that
predominantly affects young adults. There is a great need for biomarkers, which could …

Increased expression of calponin-3 in epileptic patients and experimental rats

Y Han, H Yin, Y Xu, Q Zhu, J Luo, X Wang… - Experimental neurology, 2012 - Elsevier
Calponin-3 is an actin-interacting protein and is expressed in the brain. Our previous
microarray scan has found an up-regulation of calponin-3 gene CNN3 in the temporal lobe …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics: a new window for understanding human demyelinating disorders?

JL Bennett, GP Owens - Annals of neurology, 2012 - europepmc.org
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