Evidence mapPaperPMID 40440559Full record

ReviewExpert review of neurotherapeutics2025

Neuroprotective strategies in multiple sclerosis: a status update and emerging paradigms.

Catalina I Coclitu, Cris S Constantinescu, Radu Tanasescu

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
field-weighted citation impact
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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Opioid Signaling in Multiple Sclerosis: Emerging Targets for Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
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

3 authors.

Catalina I CoclituDepartment of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Cris S ConstantinescuCooper Neurological Institute, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA.
Radu TanasescuAcademic Unit of Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, Clinical Neurology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionMS is a disease continuum in which maladaptive inflammation and neurodegeneration co-occur from onset and evolve over time. Recent progress in the understating of MS pathobiology creates new perspectives for novel neuroprotective therapeutic strategies. AREAS COVERED: The authors briefly review the mechanisms underlying inflammation and neurodegeneration in MS and discuss the current and emerging strategies to promote neuroprotection in MS. Data were derived in large part from extensive review of the published literature available on PubMed (up to 5th of March 2025). EXPERT OPINION: Strategies for neuroprotection should be ideally implemented early in the course of MS. They should consider the interplay between neuroinflammation, demyelination and neurodegeneration, the maladaptive changes in the CNS innate immunity resident cells, axonal mitochondrial dysfunction (axonal response of mitochondria to demyelination, ARMD), and remyelination. There is a need for adequate biomarkers that can help to monitor outcomes of target engagement. Comorbidities and aging can worsen neurodegeneration and impair neuroprotective/regenerative processes. Candidate drugs from preclinical and early clinical studies should be tested in multi-arm multistage adaptive trials.

Indexed as

Multiple SclerosisNeuroprotectionNeuroprotective AgentsCentral Nervous SystemHumansImmunity, InnateInflammationNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuroprotective Agentsaxonal regenerationdemyelinationMultiple sclerosisneurodegenerationneuroprotection

Identifiers

PMID40440559
PMCPMC12312756

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.