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Monitoring the Redox Status in Multiple Sclerosis
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: Received: 29 July 2020 / Approved: 31 July 2020 / Online: 31 July 2020 (08:40:46 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 28 August 2020 / Approved: 31 August 2020 / Online: 31 August 2020 (04:01:49 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 21 September 2020 / Approved: 22 September 2020 / Online: 22 September 2020 (08:42:20 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 28 August 2020 / Approved: 31 August 2020 / Online: 31 August 2020 (04:01:49 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 21 September 2020 / Approved: 22 September 2020 / Online: 22 September 2020 (08:42:20 CEST)
A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Tanaka, M.; Vécsei, L. Monitoring the Redox Status in Multiple Sclerosis. Biomedicines 2020, 8, 406. Tanaka, M.; Vécsei, L. Monitoring the Redox Status in Multiple Sclerosis. Biomedicines 2020, 8, 406.
Abstract
Worldwide, over 2.2 million people are suffered from multiple sclerosis (MS), a multifactorial demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. MS is characterized by a wide range of motor, autonomic, and psychobehavioral symptoms including depression, anxiety, and dementia. The blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and postmortem brain samples of MS patients evidenced the disturbance of reduction-oxidation (redox) homeostasis such as the alterations of oxidative and antioxidative enzyme activities and the presence of degradation products. This review article discussed the components of redox homeostasis including reactive chemical species, oxidative enzymes, antioxidative enzymes, and degradation products. The reactive chemical species covered frequently discussed reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, infrequently featured reactive chemicals such as sulfur, carbonyl, halogen, selenium, and nucleophilic species that potentially act as reductive as well as pro-oxidative stressors. The antioxidative enzyme systems covered the nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (NRF2)-Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1) signaling pathway. The NRF2 and other transcriptional factors potentially become a biomarker sensitive to the initial phase of oxidative stress. Altered components of the redox homeostasis in MS were discussed in search of a diagnostic, prognostic, predictive, and/or therapeutic biomarker. Finally, monitoring a battery of reactive chemical species, oxidative enzymes, antioxidative enzymes and degradation products helps evaluate the redox status of MS patients to expedite building personalized treatment plans for the sake of better quality of life.
Keywords
oxidative stress; redox; antioxidant; multiple sclerosis; biomarker; neurodegenerative disease; personalized medicine
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Neurology
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