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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurology2025

Update on novel multiple sclerosis treatments: from dismal defeat to scintillating success.

Bruce Cree, Hans-Peter Hartung

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Review in Current opinion in neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Bruce CreeProfessor of Clinical Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Hans-Peter HartungDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo review novel multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies currently in clinical trials. RECENT

findingsSixty-seven clinical trials were selected and grouped into the following categories: Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors, remyelinating therapies, immunomodulators, B cell therapies, supplements/microbiome influencers, and cell-directed therapies. Important findings include tolebrutinib's successful trial in nonrelapsing secondary progressive MS that slowed CDP compared to placebo and simvastatin's failure to show an effect on disability in its phase 3 trial. SUMMARY: Multiple strategies are being investigated in MS to address progressive disability, myelin repair, neural protection and treatment refractory disease. Some of these strategies have successfully completed clinical trials giving hope that some of the most vexing aspects of MS will soon have new treatment options.

Indexed as

Immunologic FactorsMultiple SclerosisClinical Trials as TopicHumansImmunologic FactorsBruton's tyrosine kinaseclinical trialsdisease modifying therapiesmultiple sclerosisremyelination

Identifiers

PMID40138388
PMCPMC12052076

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