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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2017

Blood Biomarkers as Outcome Measures in Inflammatory Neurologic Diseases.

Nabil K El Ayoubi, Samia J Khoury

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. An Appraisal of Novel Biomarkers for Evaluating and Monitoring Neurologic Diseases: Editorial Introduction.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nabil K El AyoubiAmerican University of Beirut and Medical Center, Nehme and Therese Tohme Multiple Sclerosis Center, Riad El Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Samia J KhouryAmerican University of Beirut and Medical Center, Nehme and Therese Tohme Multiple Sclerosis Center, Riad El Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon. sk88@aub.edu.lb.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system. Only a few biomarkers are available in MS clinical practice, such as cerebrospinal fluid oligoclonal bands and immunoglobulin index, serum anti-aquaporin 4 antibodies, and serum anti-John Cunningham virus antibodies. Thus, there is a significant unmet need for biomarkers to assess prognosis, response to therapy, or potential treatment complications. Here we describe emerging biomarkers that are in development, focusing on those from peripheral blood. There are several limitations in the process of discovery and validation of a good biomarker, such as the pathophysiological complexity of MS and the technical difficulties in globally standardizing methods for sampling, processing, and conserving biological specimens. In spite of these limitations, ongoing international collaborations allow the exploration of many interesting molecules and markers to validate diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic-response biomarkers.

Indexed as

BiomarkersDisease ProgressionEncephalitisHumansMultiple SclerosisBiomarkersAutoimmune demyelinationBiomarkersDisease progressionMultiple sclerosisTherapeutic response

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PMID27757816
PMCPMC5233628

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