Bleak prospects for primary progressive multiple sclerosis therapy: Downs and downs, but a glimmer of hope

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 429-432

  Hartung, Hans Peter ^a   Aktas, Orhan ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINGOLIMOD; GLATIRAMER; IDEBENONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; LIVER ENZYME; MITOXANTRONE; RILUZOLE; RITUXIMAB;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DETERIORATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70449368864     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21880     Document Type: Editorial

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