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ReviewNeurodegenerative disease management2025

A drug evaluation narrative review of cladribine as a treatment for multiple sclerosis.

Sarah-Jane Martin, Shane Arsenault, Jiwon Oh

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Review in Neurodegenerative disease management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sarah-Jane MartinSchool of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3600-4527
Shane ArsenaultDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4996-3436
Jiwon OhDivision of Neurology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5519-6088

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis [MS] is an immune-mediated disease driven by peripherally mediated and central nervous system compartmentalized pathophysiologic processes. Major advances have led to a plethora of disease modifying therapies [DMTs] available for the treatment of MS. Among the wide range of DMTs, the immune reconstitution therapies [IRTs] are a unique subset of therapy that have the potential for durable benefit without the need for chronic administration. Cladribine tablets are a higher-efficacy oral IRT that selectively targets lymphocytes, causing a transient lymphopenia, followed by immune reconstitution of a different repertoire of lymphocytes that may result in durable benefit. The intermittent dosing schedule and efficacy in reducing measures of disease activity in both the short and long-term make cladribine an attractive DMT choice for a broad range of individuals with relapsing forms of MS. This narrative review summarizes the available efficacy and safety data from clinical trials and real-world studies on cladribine tablets.

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CladribineImmunosuppressive AgentsMultiple SclerosisHumansCladribineImmunosuppressive AgentsCladribine tabletsclinical trialsefficacymultiple sclerosisreal world evidencesafety

Identifiers

PMID40685785
PMCPMC12952729

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