Low serum neurofilament light chain values identify optimal responders to dimethyl fumarate in multiple sclerosis treatment

Autor: Paulette Esperanza Walo-Delgado, Susana Sainz de la Maza, Noelia Villarrubia, Enric Monreal, Silvia Medina, Mercedes Espiño, José Ignacio Fernández-Velasco, Eulalia Rodríguez-Martín, Ernesto Roldán, Daniel Lourido, Alfonso Muriel, Jaime Masjuan-Vallejo, Lucienne Costa-Frossard, Luisa María Villar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88624-7
Popis: Abstract Serum neurofilament light chains (sNfL) are biomarkers of disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS), but their value to predict response to treatment, and their association with patient immunological profile, need to be further explored. We studied 80 relapsing–remitting MS patients initiating dimethyl fumarate (DMF) treatment. sNfL levels were explored at baseline and at 3, 6 and 12 months by single molecule array. Blood lymphocyte subsets were measured at baseline and at 6 months by flow cytometry. Patients were followed a year and classified as NEDA (no evidence of disease activity) or ODA (ongoing disease activity). NEDA patients had lower sNfL levels at baseline (p = 0.0001), and after three (p = 0.004) and six (p = 0.03) months of DMF treatment. Consequently, low baseline sNfL values (≤ 12 pg/ml) increased the probability of NEDA (OR 5.8; CI 1.82–15.6; p = 0.002, after correcting by disease activity in the previous year), and associated with significant reductions of central memory CD4+ T lymphocytes, interferon-gamma+ CD8+ T lymphocytes, Natural Killer T cells, and memory B cells upon DMF treatment, being the highest differences in memory B cells (p
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