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SUBMITTER: Ontaneda D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5233623 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ontaneda Daniel D Fox Robert J RJ
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20170101 1
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to lesion formation both in the brain and spinal cord. Imaging plays a prominent role in the diagnosis and monitoring of MS. Over a dozen anti-inflammatory therapies are approved for MS and the development of many of these medications was made possible through the use of contrast-enhancing lesions on MRI as a phase II outcome. A similar phase II outcome method f ...[more]