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ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2004

Autoimmune concepts of multiple sclerosis as a basis for selective immunotherapy: from pipe dreams to (therapeutic) pipelines.

Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hartmut Wekerle

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Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 238 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Reinhard HohlfeldDepartment of Neuroimmunology, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany. reinhard.hohlfeld@med.uni-muenchen.de
Hartmut Wekerle
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autoimmune T and B cell responses to CNS antigen(s) are thought to drive the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), and thus are logical targets for therapy. Indeed, several immunomodulatory agents, including IFN-beta 1b, IFN-beta 1a, glatiramer acetate, and mitoxantrone, have had beneficial clinical effects in different forms of MS. However, because the available treatments are only partially effective, MS therapy needs to be further improved. Selective (antigen-specific) immunotherapies are especially appealing because in theory they combine maximal efficacy with minimal side effects. Indeed, several innovative immunotherapies have been successfully applied in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. For example, autoreactive T cells can be selectively targeted by means of antigen, T cell receptor, or activation markers. However, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is far from being a perfect approximation of MS because MS is more heterogeneous and the target antigen(s) is (are) not known. Further advances in MS therapy will depend on our growing understanding of the pathogenesis of this still incurable disease.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsAutoantigensAutoimmunityGenetic EngineeringGlatiramer AcetateHumansImmune ToleranceMultiple SclerosisMyelin Basic ProteinPeptidesT-LymphocytesVaccinationAutoantigensGlatiramer AcetateMyelin Basic ProteinPeptides

Identifiers

PMID15306684
PMCPMC521993
OpenAlexW2097732890

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