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The Heterogeneous Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Lesion. How Can We Assess and Modify a Degenerating Lesion?

Version 1 : Received: 21 May 2023 / Approved: 23 May 2023 / Online: 23 May 2023 (03:39:19 CEST)

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Ellen, O.; Ye, S.; Nheu, D.; Dass, M.; Pagnin, M.; Ozturk, E.; Theotokis, P.; Grigoriadis, N.; Petratos, S. The Heterogeneous Multiple Sclerosis Lesion: How Can We Assess and Modify a Degenerating Lesion? Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 11112. Ellen, O.; Ye, S.; Nheu, D.; Dass, M.; Pagnin, M.; Ozturk, E.; Theotokis, P.; Grigoriadis, N.; Petratos, S. The Heterogeneous Multiple Sclerosis Lesion: How Can We Assess and Modify a Degenerating Lesion? Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 11112.

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a heterogeneous disease of the central nervous system that is governed by neural tissue loss and dystrophy during its progressive phase, with complex reactive pathological cellular changes. The immune-mediated mechanisms that promulgate the demyelinating lesions during the relapses of acute episodes are not characteristic of chronic lesions during progressive MS. This has limited our capacity to target the disease effectively as it evolves within the central nervous system white and gray matter, thereby leaving neurologists without effective options to manage individuals as they transition to a secondary progressive phase. The current review highlights the molecular and cellular sequelae that have been identified to cooperate and/or contribute to neurodegeneration that identifies individuals with progressive forms of MS. We emphasize the need for appropriate monitoring via known and novel molecular and imaging biomarkers that can accurately detect and predict progression for the purposes of newly designed clinical trials that may demonstrate efficacy of neuroprotection and potentially neurorepair. To achieve neurorepair, we focus on the modifications required in the reactive cellular and extracellular milieu, in order to enable endogenous cell growth as well as transplanted cells that can integrate and/or renew the degenerative MS plaque.

Keywords

multiple sclerosis; oligodendrocyte; myelination; inflammation; microglia; macrophage; bi-omarkers; imaging diagnostics

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Neurology

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