Multiple sclerosis patients lacking oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid are less likely to develop neutralizing antibodies against interferon beta
| Autor: | Malin Lundkvist, Eva Greiner, Anna Fogdell-Hahn, Jan Hillert |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Multiple Sclerosis Genotype Central nervous system disease Degenerative disease Cerebrospinal fluid medicine Humans Immunologic Factors Registries Neutralizing antibody Sweden Chi-Square Distribution biology Interferon beta business.industry Multiple sclerosis Oligoclonal Bands HLA-DR Antigens Interferon-beta medicine.disease Antibodies Neutralizing Immunity Humoral Logistic Models Treatment Outcome Neurology Immunology biology.protein Neurology (clinical) Antibody business Interferon beta-1a HLA-DRB1 Chains |
| Zdroj: | Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 16:796-800 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0970 1352-4585 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1352458510373112 |
| Popis: | Multiple sclerosis patients without cerebrospinal fluid oligoclonal IgG bands have been proposed to constitute an immunogenetically distinct subgroup of multiple sclerosis that may also differ in terms of prognosis. A proportion of patients with multiple sclerosis receiving IFNβ develop neutralizing antibodies, which interfere with treatment efficacy. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of developing neutralizing antibodies is partly genetically determined. Here, we hypothesized that absence of oligoclonal IgG bands reflects a property of B-cell responses in oligoclonal IgG band-negative patients characterized by a lessened propensity to develop neutralizing antibodies. We aimed to compare the development of neutralizing antibodies against IFNβ between oligoclonal IgG band-negative and oligoclonal IgG band-positive multiple sclerosis patients. Treatment, oligoclonal IgG band and neutralizing antibody information was obtained for 2219 patients from the Swedish multiple sclerosis registry and the Swedish neutralizing antibody registry. Additional data on genotype was available for 532 patients. A correlation was found between oligoclonal IgG band negativity and neutralizing antibody negativity ( p = 0.02). This difference was confined to neutralizing antibodies against IFNβ-1a, since oligoclonal IgG band-negative patients were, to a lesser extent, neutralizing antibody positive compared with oligoclonal IgG band-positive patients if treated with IFNβ-1a (12% vs. 23%; p = 0.005). No difference was observed for IFNβ-1b-treated patients (44% vs. 46%). We propose that oligoclonal IgG band-negative patients differ immunologically from oligoclonal IgG band-positive patients, potentially influenced by distinct HLA-DRB1 alleles. |
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