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What does COVID-19 mean for people living with MS? Many disease modifying therapies (DMTs) for...

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Epstein Bar Virus - A Review of the Epstein Barr Virus in Relationship to MS

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by Kinora » Fri May 03, 2019 9:08 am

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With Poem-The Long and Winding Road reinterpreted.

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Hi,
I don't think that there is a contraindication if you take both but I'd check the dosing. You can't cut a slice of butter with a sledgehammer. It...

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Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:02 pm
one of the mi-RNA predicts response to interferon

Last post by frodo « Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:50 am

by frodo » Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:50 am

miR-504 expression level is increased in multiple sclerosis patients responder to interferon-beta

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Multiple sclerosis is...

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Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:50 am
OCBs in MS target patient-specific peptides

Last post by frodo « Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:51 am

by frodo » Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:51 am

New data speaking about different MS pathogenesis in each patient. It seems that a OCB signature has never been found because it does not exist. OCBs...

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Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:51 am
miRNA dysregulation as the source of the disease

Last post by Petr75 « Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:01 am
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by frodo » Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:28 pm

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Micro-RNA ( miRNA ) has been proposed as a biomarker of axon degeneration, but some authors have proposed that they could be the source of the...

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2020 Feb 6
Urogenital Stem Cell Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
The rs4759314 SNP Within Hotair lncRNA...

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Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:01 am
Quantitative Magnetisation Transfer MRI shows microscopic damage

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by frodo » Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:50 am

Multiparametric qMTI Assessment and Monitoring of Normal Appearing White Matter and Classified T1 Hypointense Lesions in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple...

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Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:50 am
inflammatory infiltration into the cortex through the meninges underlies MS

Last post by frodo « Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:23 am

by frodo » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:23 am

A “kissing lesion”: In-vivo 7T evidence of meningeal inflammation in early multiple sclerosis

Background:

The role of cortical lesions (CLs) in...

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Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:23 am
Four antioxidant biomarkers predict MS diagnosis

Last post by frodo « Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:54 am

by frodo » Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:54 am

Four antioxidant biomarkers (adiponectin, zinc, TRAP, and SH groups) and sTNFR2 showed the best diagnostic model to externally validate the MS...

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Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:54 am
IgG index better than oligoclonal bands

Last post by frodo « Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:50 am

by frodo » Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:50 am

The diagnostic value of IgG index versus oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis

Background

Diagnostic...

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Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:50 am
Research in heterogeneity: New paper about patterns discrimination

Last post by frodo « Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:23 am
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by frodo » Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:18 am

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New paper about discriminating the four pathological patterns:

The main idea is that there are four patterns of MS (one of them, IV very rare and...

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Papers about tests for discriminating the patterns

- September 2019 : Multiplexed imaging of immune cells in staged multiple sclerosis lesions by...

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Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:23 am
Biomarkers. Response to Fingolimod can be predicted.

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:09 am
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by frodo » Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:31 pm

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Predicting therapeutic response to fingolimod treatment in multiple sclerosis patients

Summary

Fingolimod, an orally active immunomodulatory...

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Combinatorial allosteric modulation of agonist response in a self-interacting G-protein coupled receptor

The structural plasticity of G-protein...

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:09 am
Two new reports about EBV

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:18 am

by frodo » Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:18 am

The interaction of Multiple Sclerosis risk loci with Epstein-Barr virus phenotypes implicates the virus in pathogenesis

Conclusion

We believe...

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 8:18 am
Reports about the CSF toxicity

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:40 am
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by frodo » Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:25 am

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I am collecting here some of the studies about the CSF toxicity. One of the most interesting studies of the previous years was the possibility of...

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Epstein Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) peptides recognized by adult multiple sclerosis patient sera induce neurologic symptoms in a murine...

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:40 am
Relationship between MS and type-1 diabetes

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:25 am
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by frodo » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:52 am

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Type-1 diabetes is the most common diabetes in children and autoimmune. These people are three-times more prone to develop MS than the general...

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Not always MS and type1 diabetes are related. But MS could be more than one disease, and maybe a subtype is related.

An ancestral retroviral...

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 4:25 am
Lassman review for 2019. Top four MS papers.

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:51 am

by frodo » Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:51 am

1. Neuronal vulnerability and multilineage diversity in multiple sclerosis (Schirmer et al 2019)

The study supports the importance of meningeal...

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Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:51 am
personalized medicine for MS

Last post by frodo « Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:31 am
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by frodo » Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:25 am

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Thanks to ms-uk for the review

New genetic markers may make prognosis clearer

The original paper:

Early complement genes are associated with...

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Pre-treatment T-cell subsets associate with fingolimod treatment responsiveness in multiple sclerosis

Abstract

Biomarkers predicting fingolimod...

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Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:31 am
IGM+ MS could be different from normal MS

Last post by frodo « Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:42 am
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by frodo » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:35 am

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The oligoclonal bands in MS are IgG bands. There is a subset of patients with another immunoglobulin, IGM, that have a worse prognosis.

This paper...

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Immunoglobulin M oligoclonal bands: Biomarker of targetable inflammation in primary progressive multiple sclerosis

Objective

To identify a...

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Last post by frodo
Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:42 am
Ms artificially induced in humans

Last post by frodo « Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:15 am
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by frodo » Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:09 am

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Sometimes some MS patients get a kind of artificially induced MS while they are treated for other conditions. There are several reports about it...

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Well. Not the same but I have found a paper in which they describe the action of TNF in mice, similar to the previous auto-antibody.

TNFR2 limits...

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Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:15 am
Biomarkers: Interleukin-17

Last post by frodo « Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:58 am
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by frodo » Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:28 am

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Source:

Remarks:

1- The mean of serum level of IL-17 in the MS and NMO subjects was significantly higher than healthy subjects.
2 - The mean of...

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Please confirm that the URL is correct and give us the title to the paper where these remarks were found.

Sorry. I thought it was working...

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Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:58 am
Image biomarkers: Ribbon‐like subpial cortical demyelination specific to MS

Last post by frodo « Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:48 am

by frodo » Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:48 am

Extensive subpial cortical demyelination is specific to multiple sclerosis

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Cortical demyelinated lesions are frequent and widespread...

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Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:48 am
Anti-Angiogenesis therapy in MS

Last post by frodo « Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:37 am

by frodo » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:37 am

Anti-Angiogenesis therapy in MS

Is the title of a book about the subject. It is interesting to see that some people still research about this link.

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Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:37 am
Smouldering lesions can be seen on MRI

Last post by frodo « Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:43 am
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by frodo » Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:34 am

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A paper about seen smoldering lesions on MRI here:

A previous one about the same:

An not a paper, but a blog entry instead speaking about the...

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More information about the discovery

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Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:43 am
B-cell types and MS

Last post by frodo « Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:39 am

by frodo » Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:39 am

Induction of brain‐infiltrating T‐bet–expressing B cells in multiple sclerosis

Here, we aimed to explore the CNS transmigration capacity of...

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Last post by frodo
Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:39 am
Plasma exchange works in steroid-refractory MS

Last post by frodo « Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:01 pm
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by frodo » Tue Nov 19, 2019 4:06 am

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Visual Outcomes of Plasma Exchange Treatment of Steroid-Refractory Optic Neuritis: A Retrospective Monocentric Analysis

Introduction :
In acute...

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Comparing Plasma Exchange to Escalated Methyl Prednisolone in Refractory Multiple Sclerosis Relapses

Abstract

Intravenous methyl prednisolone...

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Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:01 pm
Biomarkers: Status at the end of 2019

Last post by frodo « Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:53 am

by frodo » Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:53 am

A review about the status of several MS biomarkers at the end of 2019

Conclusions

Molecular biomarkers enable individual decisions and are an...

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Last post by frodo
Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:53 am
More than 200 genetic variants

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by frodo » Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:43 am

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Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:43 am
Dimethyl fumarate associates with CD8+ cells reduction

Last post by frodo « Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:21 am

by frodo » Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:21 am

IL-17+ CD8+ T cell suppression by dimethyl fumarate associates with clinical response in multiple sclerosis

Abstract

IL-17-producing CD8+...

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Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:21 am
is MS an autoimmune disease?

Last post by frodo « Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:19 am

by frodo » Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:19 am

This paper lists evidence for and against the autoimmune classification. It is interesting to note that one of the main reasons supporting...

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Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:19 am
Detecting early MS

Last post by frodo « Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:53 am

by frodo » Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:53 am

Detecting neurodegenerative pathology in multiple sclerosis before irreversible brain tissue loss sets in

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Background

Multiple...

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Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:53 am
Mitochondria in MS

Last post by frodo « Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:32 am
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by frodo » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:11 am

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Increased levels of cell-free mitochondrial DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis

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It is unknown (for me) wether they refer to human neurons.

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Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:32 am
lesion evolution

Last post by frodo « Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:30 am

by frodo » Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:30 am

This article refers to the four possible evolutive types of lesions (active, inactive, chronic active, remyelinating)

Molecular signature of...

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Last post by frodo
Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:30 am
Recent advances in understanding multiple sclerosis

Last post by frodo « Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:16 am

by frodo » Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:16 am

Status of the research as of Dec. 2019

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Emerging data point to important contributions of both autoimmune inflammation and progressive...

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Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:16 am
Herpesvirus HHV-6B strain linked to MS

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by frodo » Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:52 am

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Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:52 am
Dogs can smell MS

Last post by frodo « Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:11 am
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by frodo » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:54 am

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These Dogs Know When Their Owners Are About to Have an MS Flare

Health and wellness touch everyone’s life differently. Here are some stories....

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Using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) for MS diagnosis.

Diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis Using Breath Biomarkers and GC-MS.

As a...

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Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:11 am
MS clinical types are obsolete

Last post by frodo « Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:57 am

by frodo » Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:57 am

Since Charcot times, neurologist classify the MS types by its clinical evolution. This is so deeply stablished that even when NMO was considered a...

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Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:57 am
MS linked to lipids dysregulation

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by frodo » Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:26 am

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Before reading the paper, it is interesting also this:

Specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators are differentially altered in peripheral blood...

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This caught my interest as there are a couple of proresolving mediator supplements available on the market. The assumption is they will cross BBB as...

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Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:10 am
MRZR+ MS cases are different from others

Last post by frodo « Fri Nov 29, 2019 5:59 am
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by frodo » Mon Aug 26, 2019 5:08 am

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MRZR is a reaction about several viruses highly specific for MS, but little sensitive. This means that if you have MRZR is nearly sure that you have...

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Rheumatic diseases (lupus like diseases) and 60% of MS cases show antinuclear antibodies (ANA), leading to diagnosis confusion. MRZR can separate...

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Fri Nov 29, 2019 5:59 am
Microglia in the pathogenesis of MS

Last post by Petr75 « Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:46 am
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by frodo » Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:13 am
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Microglia in the pathogenesis of MS

We postulate that the immune reaction initiates in the CNS and immune cells (including T cells/B cell)...

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2019 Nov 15
Neuroprotection Research Laboratory, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School,...
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Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:46 am
MS defined as a CD8+ disease

Last post by frodo « Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:03 am
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by frodo » Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:01 am

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This is the first time that I see some kind of concrete definition for MS, instead of defining it by a collection of symptoms and testing...

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Anti-CD20 therapy depletes activated myelin-specific CD8+ T cells in multiple sclerosis

Significance

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory...

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Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:03 am
MS signature in plasma and CSF

Last post by Petr75 « Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:29 pm
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by frodo » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:53 am

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Multiple sclerosis has a distinct lipid signature in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid

ABSTRACT

The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) has...

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2019 Oct 14
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
HDL-cholesterol elevation associated with...

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Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:29 pm
Prodromal MS: Biomarkers

Last post by frodo « Thu Nov 07, 2019 7:16 am
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by frodo » Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:57 am

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Prodrome is the stage of a disease in which there are no noticeable symptoms, but nevertheless the disease is present. In MS this means that is a...

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Normalized cerebellar white matter and gray matter volume were significantly decreased in RIS compared to healthy controls.

Cerebellar volume loss...

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Thu Nov 07, 2019 7:16 am
Ceramides link MS and vascular problems

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by frodo » Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:44 am

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Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:44 am
An underlying process causes abnormalities in veins together with MS

Last post by frodo « Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:26 am
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by frodo » Thu May 09, 2019 1:41 am

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This paper points to the existence of an underlying process that causes the known MS lesions and, at the same time, some venous problems:

The...

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Central vein sign: More about vascular problems and MS. 100% sensitivity.

Single Test to ARrive at Multiple Sclerosis (STAR-MS) diagnosis: A...

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Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:26 am
There is also demyelination outside the lesions

Last post by frodo « Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:03 am

by frodo » Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:03 am

Florbetapir PET/MR imaging to assess demyelination in multiple sclerosis

Conclusion

Our findings demonstrate that florbetapir PET imaging can...

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Last post by frodo
Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:03 am
Possibility of nasal bacteria involved in MS pathogenesis

Last post by Petr75 « Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:41 am
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by frodo » Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:06 am

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Bacterial transportable toxins of the nasopharyngeal microbiota in multiple sclerosis. Nose-to-brain direct

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Intranasal...

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Thanks

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Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:41 am
MRS of the brain

Last post by frodo « Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:13 am
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by frodo » Thu Oct 10, 2019 6:52 am

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MRS (Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy) allows to see the chemical composition of the brain.

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a non-invasive...

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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy evidence for declining gliosis in MS patients treated with ocrelizumab versus interferon beta-1a

Background...

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Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:13 am
Herpes virus induces demyelination in rats

Last post by frodo « Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:28 am

by frodo » Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:28 am

Nothing to do with EAE

Herpes Simplex Virus 1 induces brain inflammation and multifocal demyelination in cotton rats Sigmodon hispidus...

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Last post by frodo
Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:28 am
Large Noncoding RNA in blood

Last post by Petr75 « Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:16 pm
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by frodo » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:30 pm

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Expression Analysis of Long Non-coding RNAs in the Blood of Multiple Sclerosis Patients.

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic...

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2019 Aug 6
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Hospital Affiliated to Jilin University, Changchun, China
Exosomal long noncoding RNAs...

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Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:16 pm
Correlation of clinical courses and pathophysiological types

Last post by frodo « Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:40 am

by frodo » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:40 am

Correlation of clinical courses and pathophysiological types

Discussion

Prior histopathological studies of relapsing and progressive MS...

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Last post by frodo
Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:40 am
MS induced by mistake

Last post by frodo « Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:35 am

by frodo » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:35 am

An unfortunate accident has shown something that could replace EAE.

Multiple sclerosis associated with pembrolizumab in a patient with non-small...

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Last post by frodo
Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:35 am
EBV-activated CD8+ Tcells infiltrate the MS brain

Last post by frodo « Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:31 am
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by frodo » Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:26 am

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More clues pointing to EBV as the culprit. And more evidence that EAE (a CD4+ disease) and MS have nothing to do.

EBV-activated CD8+ Tcells...

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And maybe the mechanism by which the anti-EBV Tcells cause inflammation is because they cross-react with myelin MBP:

Myelin-specific CD8 T cells...

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Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:31 am

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