Strategies to improve autoimmune neurological diseases treatment.

Autor: Leypoldt F; Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Kiel and Lübeck, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany. Electronic address: Frank.Leypoldt@uksh.de.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revue neurologique [Rev Neurol (Paris)] 2024 Nov; Vol. 180 (9), pp. 888-894. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2024.08.005
Abstrakt: There is a need to improve therapies in autoimmune neurologic conditions. Yet which strategic objectives are required, what are the barriers that stand before reaching them, and what are the options to address them? This article tries to summarize these objectives and their respective barriers. It discusses the difficulties in identifying molecular targets, biomarker-defined subgroups, the merits of upstream and downstream-targeted therapies, the need to develop autoreactivity-specific treatments in contrast to cell-type specific therapies, and the "evidence-bottleneck". Its focus is on autoantigen-specific autoimmunopathies in neurology. It also discusses the role of B- and T-cells in autoimmune neurology and how these can be exploited therapeutically. Finally, it argues for improved training of present and future neuroimmunologists.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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