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ReviewJournal of neuroinflammation2019

Molecular biomarkers in multiple sclerosis.

Tjalf Ziemssen, Katja Akgün, Wolfgang Brück

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Review in Journal of neuroinflammation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05451069 (Combined Neurofilament Light Chain ,Chitinase-3 Like-1 Protein Levels and Tolerogenic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Defining Disease Course in Multiple Sclerosis Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 116 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05451069 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Combined Neurofilament Light Chain ,Chitinase-3 Like-1 Protein Levels and Tolerogenic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Defining Disease Course in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

TypeobservationalSponsorAssiut UniversityRan2022 to 2025Enrolled42ConditionsMultiple SclerosisArmsNeurofilament Light Chain ,Chitinase-3 Like-1 Protein Levels and Tolerogenic plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. CSF Proteins Associated With Neuroaxonal Damage in Early Active Multiple Sclerosis.Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tjalf ZiemssenMS center, Center of Clinical Neuroscience, University Clinic Carl-Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. Tjalf.Ziemssen@uniklinikum-dresden.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-8202
Katja AkgünMS center, Center of Clinical Neuroscience, University Clinic Carl-Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Wolfgang BrückInstitute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory-neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system presenting with significant inter- and intraindividual heterogeneity. However, the application of clinical and imaging biomarkers is currently not able to allow individual characterization and prediction. Complementary, molecular biomarkers which are easily quantifiable come from the areas of immunology and neurobiology due to the causal pathomechanisms and can excellently complement other disease characteristics. Only a few molecular biomarkers have so far been routinely used in clinical practice as their validation and transfer take a long time. This review describes the characteristics that an ideal MS biomarker should have and the challenges of establishing new biomarkers. In addition, clinically relevant and promising biomarkers from the blood and cerebrospinal fluid are presented which are useful for MS diagnosis and prognosis as well as for the assessment of therapy response and side effects.

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BiomarkersMultiple SclerosisHumansBiomarkersCerebrospinal fluidMolecular biomarkerMultiple sclerosisNeurofilamentOligoclonal bandsTreatment response

Identifiers

PMID31870389
PMCPMC6929340

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