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Achieving Long-Term Gains With Early Intervention

Clinical relapses and MRI measures of disease activity provide convenient means for the physician to monitor disease activity, but the accumulation of disability is the most relevant metric for patients...

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Clinical Importance of Neutralizing Antibodies

Therapeutic macromolecules (eg, monoclonal antibodies, nucleic acids, pathogen surface proteins used as vaccines) elicit an immune response that results in the production of binding antibodies...

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Head-to-Head Comparison of High-Dose/High-Frequency Interferon β and Glatiramer Acetate in BEYOND and REGARD

For the past decade, three general approaches to the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) have been available...

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Immunologic Aspects of Multiple Sclerosis

An understanding of the immunology of multiple sclerosis (MS) will be increasingly important as new therapies emerge...

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Issues in Patient Management During Disease-Modifying Treatment

Patients newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) must come to terms with not only the realization that they have a chronic disease, but also the knowledge that they are facing a lifetime of therapy...

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MRI and New Diagnostic Criteria for Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

The most basic diagnostic principle for multiple sclerosis (MS) is dissemination of lesions in time and space. This must be demonstrated in the absence of a more likely explanation...

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Optical Coherence Tomography for Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although MS has a highly variable clinical course,...

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The Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis

The causative factors of multiple sclerosis (MS) have remained elusive ever since the first description of the disease in the late 1800s...

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