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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

The Future of PET Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis: Characterisation of Individual White Matter Lesions.

Chris W J van der Weijden, Jan F Meilof, Anouk van der Hoorn, Erik F J de Vries, Wia Baron

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Chris W J van der WeijdenDepartment of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6825-8679
Jan F MeilofDepartment of Neurology, Martini Hospital, 9728 NT Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3827-7745
Anouk van der HoornDepartment of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4649-327X
Erik F J de VriesDepartment of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6915-1590
Wia BaronDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Section Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6673-4766

Funding

Dutch MS Research Foundation PTO-95105010the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) PTO-95105010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifaceted inflammatory, demyelinating, and neurodegenerative disease typified by lesions with distinct hallmarks in the central nervous system. Dysregulation of micro-environmental factors, including extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling and glial cell activation, has a decisive effect on lesion development and disease progression. Understanding the biological and pathological features of lesions would aid in prognosis and personalised treatment decision making. Positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technique that uses radio-labelled tracers to detect specific biological phenomena. Recent PET hardware developments enable high-resolution, quantitative imaging, which may allow biological characterisation of relatively small MS lesions. PET may complement MRI by offering objective, quantitative insights into lesion characteristics, including myelin density, inflammation and axonal integrity. Moreover, PET may provide information on lesion traits supporting decision making on upcoming therapeutic strategies for progressive MS, such as the availability of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells and ECM composition that affect remyelination and/or axon regeneration. This review explores the cellular and molecular ECM signatures and neuropathological processes of white matter MS lesions, discusses current and potential novel PET targets that may help characterise MS lesions in vivo, and addresses the potential of PET as a decision tool for selection and evaluation of therapeutic strategies, with a focus on remyelination.

Indexed as

multiple sclerosisneuroprotectionoligodendrocyte progenitor cellpositron emission tomographyradiotracerremyelination

Identifiers

PMID40648813
PMCPMC12250503

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