Mechanism-based criteria to improve therapeutic outcomes in progressive multiple sclerosis

HYF Yong, VW Yong - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
In contrast to the multiple disease-modifying therapies that are available for relapsing–
remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), the therapeutic options for progressive MS (PMS) are …

Multiple sclerosis: an immune or neurodegenerative disorder?

BD Trapp, KA Nave - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory-mediated demyelinating disease of the human
central nervous system. The clinical disease course is variable, usually starts with reversible …

Transected neurites, apoptotic neurons, and reduced inflammation in cortical multiple sclerosis lesions

JW Peterson, L Bö, S Mörk, A Chang… - Annals of Neurology …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system that causes motor, sensory, and cognitive deficits. The present study characterized …

Acute axonal injury in multiple sclerosis: correlation with demyelination and inflammation

A Bitsch, J Schuchardt, S Bunkowski, T Kuhlmann… - Brain, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Damage to axons is taken as a key factor of disability in multiple sclerosis, but its
pathogenesis is largely unknown. Axonal injury is believed to occur as a consequence of …

Multiple sclerosis and chronic autoimmune encephalomyelitis: a comparative quantitative study of axonal injury in active, inactive, and remyelinated lesions

B Kornek, MK Storch, R Weissert, E Wallstroem… - The American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Recent magnetic resonance (MR) studies of multiple sclerosis lesions indicate that axonal
injury is a major correlate of permanent clinical deficit. In the present study we systematically …

Why does remyelination fail in multiple sclerosis?

RJM Franklin - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is a common cause of neurological disability in young adults. The disease
is complex—its aetiology is multifactorial and largely unknown; its pathology is …

Acute axonal damage in multiple sclerosis is most extensive in early disease stages and decreases over time

T Kuhlmann, G Lingfeld, A Bitsch, J Schuchardt… - Brain, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sclerosis is characterized morphologically by the key features demyelination,
inflammation, gliosis and axonal damage. In recent years, it has become more evident that …

Immunopathology of secondary‐progressive multiple sclerosis

JW Prineas, EE Kwon, ES Cho… - Annals of Neurology …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐three plaques obtained at early autopsy from 2 patients with secondary‐progressive
multiple sclerosis were examined immunohistochemically for microglia/macrophages, and …

Axonal damage in relapsing multiple sclerosis is markedly reduced by natalizumab

M Gunnarsson, C Malmeström, M Axelsson… - Annals of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: The impact of present disease‐modifying treatments (DMTs) in multiple sclerosis
(MS) on nerve injury and reactive astrogliosis is still unclear. Therefore, we studied the effect …

Neurological disability correlates with spinal cord axonal loss and reduced N‐acetyl aspartate in chronic multiple sclerosis patients

C Bjartmar, G Kidd, S Mörk, R Rudick… - Annals of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Axonal degeneration has been proposed as a cause of irreversible neurological disability in
multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The purpose of this study was to quantify axonal loss in …