The role of exosomes in CNS inflammation and their involvement in multiple sclerosis

I Selmaj, MP Mycko, CS Raine, KW Selmaj - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a putative autoimmune disease of the central nervous system
(CNS) in which autoreactive immune cells recognizing myelin antigens lead to …

Diagnostic function of the neuroinflammatory biomarker YKL-40 in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases

F Baldacci, S Lista, E Cavedo… - Expert review of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Neuroinflammation is a crucial mechanism in the pathophysiology of
neurodegenerative diseases pathophysiology. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) YKL-40–an …

YKL-40 in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of neurodegenerative dementias

F Llorens, K Thüne, W Tahir, E Kanata… - Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Background YKL-40 (also known as Chitinase 3-like 1) is a glycoprotein produced by
inflammatory, cancer and stem cells. Its physiological role is not completely understood but …

Neurofilament light chain predicts disease activity in relapsing-remitting MS

KN Varhaug, C Barro, K Bjørnevik… - Neurology …, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate whether serum neurofilament light chain (NF-L) and chitinase 3-
like 1 (CHI3L1) predict disease activity in relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS). Methods: A cohort …

Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers as a measure of disease activity and treatment efficacy in relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis

L Novakova, M Axelsson, M Khademi… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers can reflect different aspects of the pathophysiology of
relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Understanding the impact of different disease …

YKL-40 (Chitinase 3-like I) is expressed in a subset of astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

M Querol-Vilaseca, M Colom-Cadena… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Background The innate immune system is known to be involved early in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. The inflammatory …

Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of inflammation and degeneration as measures of fingolimod efficacy in multiple sclerosis

L Novakova, M Axelsson, M Khademi… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) in relapsing-remitting multiple
sclerosis (RRMS) vary in their mode of action and when therapies are changed, the …

An update on the use of cerebrospinal fluid analysis as a diagnostic tool in multiple sclerosis

M Gastaldi, E Zardini, D Franciotta - Expert review of molecular …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Intrathecal B-lymphocyte activation is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS), a
multi-factorial inflammatory-demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Such …

Fluid biomarker and electrophysiological outcome measures for progressive MS trials

C Barro, L Leocani, D Leppert, G Comi… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by insidious clinical worsening that is
difficult to accurately quantify and predict. Biofluid markers and electrophysiological …

CSF-PR 2.0: an interactive literature guide to quantitative cerebrospinal fluid mass spectrometry data from neurodegenerative disorders

A Guldbrandsen, Y Farag, AC Kroksveen… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2017 - ASBMB
The rapidly growing number of biomedical studies supported by mass spectrometry based
quantitative proteomics data has made it increasingly difficult to obtain an overview of the …