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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38060614/effectiveness-of-oral-prednisone-tapering-following-intravenous-methylprednisolone-for-acute-optic-neuritis-in-multiple-sclerosis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adi Wilf-Yarkoni, Kristina Feldmann, Kerstin Rubarth, Eva-Maria Dorsch, Rebekka Rust, Ilia Urman, Mark A Hellmann, Yitzhak Friedman, Itay Lotan, Omer Bialer, Gilberto Solorza Buenrostro, Hanna G Zimmermann, Carla Leutloff, Tanja Schmitz-Hübsch, Friedemann Paul, Susanna Asseyer, Hadas Stiebel-Kalish
Acute optic neuritis treatment lacks standardized protocols. The value of oral prednisone taper (OPT) following intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) on visual outcome parameters in optic neuritis (ON) has never been explored. In the present retrospective study, we investigated whether OPT after IVMP affects the structural and functional visual outcomes of inaugural clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)- or multiple sclerosis (MS)-ON. Adult patients with acute, inaugural, unilateral CIS- or MS-ON, treated with IVMP in Germany and Israel were stratified into patients treated with IVMP alone-versus IVMP and OPT...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38060030/the-brief-repeatable-battery-of-neuropsychological-tests-brb-n-version-a-update-of-italian-normative-data-from-the-italian-neuroimaging-network-initiative-inni
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicolò Tedone, Carmen Vizzino, Alessandro Meani, Antonio Gallo, Manuela Altieri, Alessandro D'Ambrosio, Patrizia Pantano, Claudia Piervincenzi, Silvia Tommasin, Nicola De Stefano, Rosa Cortese, Maria L Stromillo, Maria A Rocca, Massimo Filippi
BACKGROUND: Cognitive impairment is a common clinical manifestation in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and significantly impacts patients' quality life. Cognitive assessment is crucial for treatment decisions and understanding disease progression. Several neuropsychological batteries are used in MS, including the Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB-N), Minimal Assessment of Cognitive Function in MS (MACFIMS), and Brief International Cognitive Assessment for MS (BICAMS)...
December 7, 2023: Journal of Neurology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38059561/correction-to-the-role-of-diet-in-multiple-sclerosis-onset-and-course-results-from-a-nationwide-retrospective-birth-year-cohort
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December 7, 2023: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38059247/mri-assessment-of-cervical-spinal-cord-cross-sectional-area-in-patients-with-multiple-sclerosis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Haider N Al-Tameemi, Hayder K Hassoun, Israa Q Mohammed, Zuhair Allebban
OBJECTIVES: Spinal cord abnormalities including cervical cord atrophy are common in multiple sclerosis (MS). This study aimed to assess the cervical spinal cord cross-sectional area (CSA) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in MS patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty participants were enrolled in this study (16 male and 44 female), 30 patients with MS, diagnosed according to the revised McDonald criteria, and 30 apparently healthy individuals as the control group...
2023: Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38058522/disease-activity-and-progression-of-disability-in-multiple-sclerosis-patients-aged-over-50-with-or-without-disease-modifying-drug-treatment-a-retrospective-cohort-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Akihiro Kondo, Ryotaro Ikeguchi, Kazuo Kitagawa, Yuko Shimizu
Background This study aimed to clarify the need for disease-modifying drug (DMD) treatment in elderly patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) aged 50 years or older. MS is an autoimmune, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that predominantly affects young women. Various DMDs are effective in preventing relapses and slowing the progression of disability in patients with MS. Although disease activity in MS is believed to decrease with aging, a consensus on the appropriate DMD treatment for elderly patients with MS is lacking...
December 2023: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38058171/an-update-on-combination-therapies-for-multiple-sclerosis-where-are-we-now
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REVIEW
Per Soelberg Sorensen, Melinda Magyari, Finn Sellebjerg
INTRODUCTION: In theory, combination of two agents, which are suboptimal when given individually, may result in a significant increase in therapeutic effect. Combination therapies have proven particularly effective against infections such as HIV, cancer, and also chronic autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. AREAS COVERED: The authors review the literature, searching for randomized placebo-controlled or comparative, double-blind or investigator-blinded clinical trials, not including open label clinical trials, of treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) with combination therapy or add-on therapy, including trials of induction therapy, trials for prevention of disease activity or worsening, amelioration of adverse effects, and treatment of relapses, and trials to increase remyelination...
December 6, 2023: Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38058136/medication-and-bone-health-in-multiple-sclerosis-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Cahyadi, Jakub Mesinovic, Sher Ting Chim, Peter Ebeling, Ayse Zengin, Lisa Grech
BACKGROUND: People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are often prescribed medications associated with adverse effects on bone health. However, it is unclear whether these medications incur decreases in areal bone mineral density (aBMD) and higher fracture risk in this population. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of commonly used medications on aBMD and fracture risk among people with MS. METHODS: MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, and Web of Science were searched from their inception until February 5, 2023...
December 2023: Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38058006/nanocarrier-mediated-curcumin-delivery-an-adjuvant-strategy-for-cns-disease-treatment
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REVIEW
Sandip Godse, Lina Zhou, Swarna Sakshi, Bhupesh Singla, Udai P Singh, Santosh Kumar
Neurological disorders are a major global challenge, which counts for a substantial slice of disease burden around the globe. In these, the challenging landscape of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and neuro-AIDS, demands innovative and novel therapeutic approaches. Curcumin, a versatile natural compound with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, shows great potential as a CNS adjuvant therapy. However, its limited bioavailability and suboptimal permeability to the blood-brain barrier (BBB) hamper the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin...
December 6, 2023: Experimental Biology and Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38057803/an-engineered-fc-fusion-protein-that-targets-antigen-specific-t-cells-and-autoantibodies-mitigates-autoimmune-disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mathangi Janakiraman, Alexei Leliavski, Jeeva Varadarajulu, Dieter Jenne, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy
Current effective therapies for autoimmune diseases rely on systemic immunomodulation that broadly affects all T and/or B cell responses. An ideal therapeutic approach would combine autoantigen-specific targeting of both T and B cell effector functions, including efficient removal of pathogenic autoantibodies. Albeit multiple strategies to induce T cell tolerance in an autoantigen-specific manner have been proposed, therapeutic removal of autoantibodies remains a significant challenge. Here, we devised an approach to target both autoantigen-specific T cells and autoantibodies by producing a central nervous system (CNS) autoantigen myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-Fc fusion protein...
December 6, 2023: Journal of Neuroinflammation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38057548/potential-role-of-focal-microvibration-equistasi-%C3%A2-in-the-management-of-chronic-pain-a-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pasquale Buonanno, Carmine Iacovazzo, Annachiara Marra, Andrea Uriel de Siena, Tatiana Josu, Maddalena Zampi, Davide Sedda, Giuseppe Servillo, Maria Vargas
INTRODUCTION: Chronic pain is one of the leading causes of medical consultation with a dramatic psychophysical and socioeconomic impact. Focal microvibration (Equistasi® ) is a revolutionary technology that converts the thermal energy of the skin into vibration. Equistasi® was shown to be effective in the treatment of gait and balance dysfunction in many pathological conditions such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Our aim was to explore the efficacy of focal microvibration in the management of chronic pain...
December 6, 2023: Pain and Therapy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38057107/colour-tone-of-retinal-arterioles-imaged-with-a-colour-scanning-laser-ophthalmoscope-can-be-an-indicator-of-systemic-arterial-stiffness
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Takato Sakono, Hiroto Terasaki, Takuro Kubozono, Shozo Sonoda, Ryoh Funatsu, Naohisa Mihara, Hideki Shiihara, Mitsuru Ohishi, Taiji Sakamoto
OBJECTIVE: Colour scanning laser ophthalmoscope (cSLO) offers several advantages, including improved image quality and better visualisation of the retinal structures compared with colour fundus photograph (CFP). This study aimed to identify whether cSLO could be used to predict systemic arterial stiffness. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: We retrospectively analysed the data of 54 patients with 103 eyes. In addition to blood pressure and blood data, all patients had cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) measurements, as well as images of the fundus acquired using cSLO and CFP...
December 6, 2023: BMJ Open Ophthalmology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38056916/time-trends-in-the-burden-of-autoimmune-diseases-across-the-brics-an-age-period-cohort-analysis-for-the-gbd-2019
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fenghao Zhang, Yiran Cui, Xiao Gao
BACKGROUND: This study aims to evaluate the long-term trend of prevalence and DALY (disability-adjusted life-year) rate on the age, period and cohort (APC) of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) country for autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and psoriasis). METHODS: The data are sourced from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, and it uses the Joinpoint regression model to estimate the time trends of autoimmune diseases from 1990 to 2019...
December 6, 2023: RMD Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38056248/induction-of-il-2-by-interleukin-12-p40-homodimer-and-il-12-but-not-il-23-in-microglia-and-macrophages-implications-for-multiple-sclerosis
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Malabendu Jana, Susanta Mondal, Arundhati Jana, Kalipada Pahan
The level of IL-2 increases markedly in serum and central nervous system (CNS) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and animals with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). However, mechanisms by which IL-2 is induced under autoimmune demyelinating conditions are poorly understood. The present study underlines the importance of IL-12p40 homodimer (p402 ), the so-called biologically inactive molecule, in inducing the expression of IL-2 in mouse BV-2 microglial cells, primary mouse and human microglia, mouse peritoneal macrophages, RAW264...
December 5, 2023: Cytokine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38055776/microglia-derived-extracellular-vesicles-in-homeostasis-and-demyelination-remyelination-processes
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REVIEW
V S B Wies Mancini, V S Mattera, J M Pasquini, L A Pasquini, J D Correale
Microglia (MG) play a crucial role as the predominant myeloid cells in the central nervous system and are commonly activated in multiple sclerosis. They perform essential functions under normal conditions, such as actively surveying the surrounding parenchyma, facilitating synaptic remodeling, engulfing dead cells and debris, and protecting the brain against infectious pathogens and harmful self-proteins. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are diverse structures enclosed by a lipid bilayer that originate from intracellular endocytic trafficking or the plasma membrane...
December 6, 2023: Journal of Neurochemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38054758/artemisinins-promising-drug-candidates-for-the-treatment-of-autoimmune-diseases
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REVIEW
Xu Gao, Xian Lin, Qingwen Wang, Jian Chen
Autoimmune diseases are characterized by the immune system's attack on one's own tissues which are highly diverse and diseases differ in severity, causing damage in virtually all human systems including connective tissue (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis), neurological system (e.g., multiple sclerosis) and digestive system (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease). Historically, treatments normally include pain-killing medication, anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, and immunosuppressant drugs. However, given the above characteristics, treatment of autoimmune diseases has always been a challenge...
December 6, 2023: Medicinal Research Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38054686/predictors-of-neuropathic-dysesthetic-pain-occurrence-and-chronification-in-multiple-sclerosis-2-year-prospective-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mykhaylo Delva, Kateryna Skoryk, Iryna Delva
BACKGROUND: Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are a high-risk group for neuropathic pain. OBJECTIVE: to investigate predictors of neuropathic dysesthetic pain (NDP) occurrence and chronification in patients with MS during a 2-year observation period. METHODS: After the exclusion criteria application and signing of informed consent, we recruited in the study 241 patients among which 23 patients prematurely stopped participating in the study...
December 5, 2023: Acta Bio-medica: Atenei Parmensis
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38054637/a-high-mct-based-ketogenic-diet-suppresses-th1-and-th17-responses-to-ameliorate-experimental-autoimmune-encephalomyelitis-in-mice-by-inhibiting-gsdmd-and-jak2-stat3-4-pathways
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qianye Zhang, Wei Sun, Qingpeng Wang, Xuexing Zheng, Ruiyan Zhang, Ning Zhang
SCOPE: Inflammation and pyroptosis play important roles in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). In this study, we evaluated the therapeutic potential of ketogenic diet (KD) in EAE. METHODS AND RESULTS: The administration of KD reduces demyelination and microglial activation in the spinal cord of EAE mice. Meanwhile, KD decreases the levels of Th1 and Th17 associated cytokines/transcription factors production (T-bet, IFN-γ, RORγt, and IL-17) and increases those of Th2 and Treg cytokines/transcription factors (GATA3, IL-4, Foxp3, and IL-10) in the spinal cord and spleen...
December 6, 2023: Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38054364/pharmacokinetics-and-pharmacodynamics-of-cannabis-based-medicine-in-a-patient-population-included-in-a-randomized-placebo-controlled-clinical-trial
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julie Schjødtz Hansen, Fernando Boix, Jørgen Bo Hasselstrøm, Lambert Kristiansen Sørensen, Mads Kjolby, Stefan Gustavsen, Rikke Middelhede Hansen, Thor Petersen, Finn Sellebjerg, Helge Kasch, Peter Vestergaard Rasmussen, Nanna Brix Finnerup, Eva Aggerholm Saedder, Kristina Bacher Svendsen
Information on the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of orally administered cannabis-based medicine (CBM) in capsule formulation in patient populations is sparse. In this exploratory study, we aimed to evaluate the PK and PD in a probable steady state of CBM in neuropathic pain and spasticity in a population of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Of 134 patients participating in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, trial, 23 patients with MS (17 female) mean age 52 years (range 21-67) were enrolled in this substudy...
December 6, 2023: Clinical and Translational Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38054069/occupational-risk-factors-for-multiple-sclerosis-a-systematic-review-with-meta-analysis
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Bruno Kusznir Vitturi, Alfredo Montecucco, Alborz Rahmani, Guglielmo Dini, Paolo Durando
OBJECTIVE: We decided to conduct the first systematic review with meta-analysis to provide the highest level of up-to-date evidence on the occupational risk factors for Multiple Sclerosis. METHODS: A systematic, comprehensive literature search was performed in four electronic academic databases. We included any case-control study that enrolled working-age subjects and compared the proportion of MS cases with controls who were not exposed to an occupational risk factor...
2023: Frontiers in Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38053609/clinical-applications-of-neurofeedback-based-on-sensorimotor-rhythm-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Tatiana Ferri Ribeiro, Marcelo Alves Carriello, Eugenio Pereira de Paula, Amanda Carvalho Garcia, Guilherme Luiz da Rocha, Helio Afonso Ghizoni Teive
BACKGROUND: Among the brain-machine interfaces, neurofeedback is a non-invasive technique that uses sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) as a clinical intervention protocol. This study aimed to investigate the clinical applications of SMR neurofeedback to understand its clinical effectiveness in different pathologies or symptoms. METHODS: A systematic review study with meta-analysis of the clinical applications of EEG-based SMR neurofeedback performed using pre-selected publication databases...
2023: Frontiers in Neuroscience
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