Progressive multiple sclerosis: from pathophysiology to therapeutic strategies

S Faissner, JR Plemel, R Gold, VW Yong - Nature reviews drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that
involves demyelination and axonal degeneration. Although substantial progress has been …

MAGNIMS consensus recommendations on the use of brain and spinal cord atrophy measures in clinical practice

J Sastre-Garriga, D Pareto, M Battaglini… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Early evaluation of treatment response and prediction of disease evolution are key issues in
the management of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In the past 20 years, MRI has …

Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer's disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

CJ Mummery, A Börjesson-Hanson, DJ Blackburn… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tau plays a key role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology, and accumulating
evidence suggests that lowering tau may reduce this pathology. We sought to inhibit MAPT …

Targeting huntingtin expression in patients with Huntington's disease

SJ Tabrizi, BR Leavitt… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Huntington's disease is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease
caused by CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in HTT, resulting in a mutant huntingtin …

Resveratrol for Alzheimer's disease

C Sawda, C Moussa, RS Turner - … of the New York Academy of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The amyloid hypothesis suggests that the progressive accumulation and deposition of
central nervous system (CNS) amyloid with aging is the proximate cause of Alzheimer's …

Vitamin D as an early predictor of multiple sclerosis activity and progression

A Ascherio, KL Munger, R White, K Köchert… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance It remains unclear whether vitamin D insufficiency, which is common in
individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), has an adverse effect on MS outcomes. Objectives …

Brain MRI atrophy quantification in MS: from methods to clinical application

MA Rocca, M Battaglini, RHB Benedict, N De Stefano… - Neurology, 2017 - neurology.org
Patients with the main clinical phenotypes of multiple sclerosis (MS) manifest varying
degrees of brain atrophy beyond that of normal aging. Assessment of atrophy helps to …

Association between pathological and MRI findings in multiple sclerosis

M Filippi, W Brück, D Chard, F Fazekas… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Pathological evaluation is the gold standard for identifying processes related to multiple
sclerosis that explain disease manifestations, and for guiding the development of new …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of high-dose simvastatin on brain atrophy and disability in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS-STAT): a randomised, placebo-controlled …

J Chataway, N Schuerer, A Alsanousi, D Chan… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, for which no satisfactory treatment
presently exists, accounts for most of the disability in patients with multiple sclerosis …

Outcome measures in clinical trials for multiple sclerosis

CEP van Munster, BMJ Uitdehaag - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
Due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease, it is a challenge to capture disease activity
of multiple sclerosis (MS) in a reliable and valid way. Therefore, it can be difficult to assess …