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ReviewNeurology and therapy2024

Twenty Years of Subcutaneous Interferon-Beta-1a for Multiple Sclerosis: Contemporary Perspectives.

Mark S Freedman, Patricia K Coyle, Kerstin Hellwig, Barry Singer, Daniel Wynn, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Silva Markovic-Plese, Andrew Galazka, Fernando Dangond, Julie Korich and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Neurology and therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Investigating theResearch in pharmaceutical sciences · 2026
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  10. Therapeutic Advances in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 9 institutions in 3 countries.

Mark S FreedmanDepartment of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada. mfreedman@toh.ca.
Patricia K CoyleDepartment of Neurology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, 11794, USA.
Kerstin HellwigKatholisches Klinikum Bochum, Ruhr University, 44787, Bochum, Germany.
Barry SingerThe MS Center for Innovations in Care, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, 3009 N. Ballas Road, Suite 105B, St. Louis, MO, 63131, USA.
Daniel WynnNeurology MS Center, Consultants in Neurology, Ltd, 1535 Lake Cook Road, Suite 601, Northbrook, IL, 60062, USA.
Bianca Weinstock-GuttmanJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14215, USA.
Silva Markovic-PleseDivision of Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut St, Rm 305-B, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.
Andrew GalazkaMerck Healthcare KGaA, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany.
Fernando DangondEMD Serono Research & Development Institute Inc., an affiliate of Merck GKaA, Billerica, MA, 01821, USA.
Julie KorichEMD Serono Inc., an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Rockland, MA, 02370, USA.
Anthony T RederDepartment of Neurology A-205, University of Chicago Medicine, MC-2030, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
Center for Innovation · USConsultants in Neurology · USKatholisches Klinikum Bochum · DEMerck (Germany) · DEStony Brook University · USThomas Jefferson University · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · USUniversity of Chicago · USUniversity of Ottawa · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), the most common form of the disease, is characterized by transient neurological dysfunction with concurrent accumulation of disability. Over the past three decades, disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) capable of reducing the frequency of relapses and slowing disability worsening have been studied and approved for use in patients with RRMS. The first DMTs were interferon-betas (IFN-βs), which were approved in the 1990s. Among them was IFN-β-1a for subcutaneous (sc) injection (Rebif

Indexed as

Disease-modifying therapiesInterferon-beta-1aInterferonsInterferon-β-1a for subcutaneous injectionMultiple sclerosisRelapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID38206453
PMCPMC10951191
OpenAlexW4390743174

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