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Alicja Kalinowska-Lyszczarz
Poznan University of Medical Sciences / Mayo Clinic · Department of Neurology Division of Neurochemistry nad Neuropathology / Department of Neurology

MD, PhD

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Background The mechanism of cognitive dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is still not fully understood. Even though many SLE patients present some neurological dysfunction, including various cognitive deficits, neither a specific pattern of cognitive dysfunction nor specific structural changes associated with cognitive impairment in...
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A working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society, the Polish Society of Family Medicine, and the Polish Society of Vaccinology has developed a consensus on supplementary data to the recommendations of the expert group of the Polish Society of Vaccinology, the Polish Society of Fami...
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Introduction and state of the art: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that affects many organs throughout its course, most frequently the joints, skin and kidneys. Both the central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS) nervous systems are also often affected. T he involvement of the CNS has a negative prognosis in lupus patients. Neu...
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The treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has undergone significant changes since the first disease-modifying therapy (DMT) drug was introduced. Currently, 19 original DMT drugs are registered in the European Union. The choice of optimal therapy is becoming increasingly challenging in the absence of reliable biomarkers on the basis of which disease...
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Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS), and the most common cause of neurological disability in young adults. Thanks to years of intensive research, the disease can now be largely controlled by disease-modifying treatment (DMT), of which the mode of action is mostly immunomodulatory and/or immunosuppressiv...
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Introduction: An expert panel of the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society has developed principles for the management of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). These principles are based on expert opinion and data from the literature published up to May 2023. Recommendations were developed...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a leading cause of non-traumatic disability in young adults. The highly dynamic nature of MS lesions has made them difficult to study using traditional histopathology due to the specificity of current stains. This requires numerous stains to track and study demyelinating activity in MS. Thus, we utilized Fourier transform...
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Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system characterized by increased inflammation and immune responses, oxidative injury, mitochondrial dysfunction, and iron dyshomeostasis leading to demyelination and axonal damage. In MS, incomplete remyelination results in chronically demyelinated axons and degen...
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Introduction: Assessment of the clinical course, neuroimaging and histopathological changes suggests that multiple sclerosis (MS) should not be defined merely as a focal inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) because the essence of the disease is due to a diffuse, 'smouldering', pathophysiological process. State of the art: Pro...
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W niniejszym artykule zaprezentowano przypadek 37-letniego pacjenta, u którego uzyskano długotrwałą stabilizację przebiegu postaci rzutowo-remisyjnej stwardnienia rozsianego, brak aktywności choroby oraz poprawę stanu neurologicznego przy zastosowaniu terapii doustnej fumaranem dimetylu. Omówiono najnowsze dane z realnej praktyki klinicznej na tema...
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Introduction: Cognitive impairment occurs from the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) and progresses over time. The introduction of disease modifying therapies (DMTs) has changed the prognosis for MS patients, offering a potential opportunity for improvement in the cognitive arena as well. Material and methods: 41 patients with relapsing...
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Anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) meningoencephalomyelitis (autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy) is a new autoimmune central nervous system (CNS) disease diagnosable by the presence of anti-GFAP autoantibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid and presents as meningoencephalomyelitis in the majority of patients. Only few neuropathological reports are...
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Kladrybina w tabletkach jest dostępna w Polsce do leczenia rzutowo-remisyjnej postaci stwardnienia rozsianego, zarówno u pacjentów wcześniej nieleczonych, jak i po wcześniejszym leczeniu oraz w szybko rozwijającej się, ciężkiej postaci choroby. W niniejszym opracowaniu grono polskich ekspertów na podstawie własnych doświadczeń klinicznych oraz dany...
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Objective Over the last few decades clinicians have become aware that cognitive impairment might be a major cause of disability, loss of employment and poor quality of life in patients suffering from multiple sclerosis [MS]. The impact of disease modifying therapies [DMTs] on cognition is still a matter of debate. Theoretically, DMTs could exert a...
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Introduction: Several studies have suggested the possibility that disease prodromes might occur months or even years before a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Objectives: To describe the profile of prodromal symptoms and the possible relationship between the occurrence of individual symptoms and clinical course characteristics in patients with rela...
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Background: MS is the most common CNS inflammatory demyelinating disease. Plasma exchange (PLEX) has well-demonstrated efficacy in acute corticosteroid-refractory attacks of demyelination but identifying the factors that predict favorable PLEX response remains elusive. We aimed to determine if apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) restriction on br...
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Objective: In this observational study on a cohort of biopsy-proven central nervous system demyelinating disease consistent with MS, we examined the relationship between early-active demyelinating lesion immunopattern (IP) with subsequent clinical course, radiographic progression, and cognitive function. Methods: Seventy-five patients had at lea...
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The purpose of this literature review was to summarise relevant findings regarding the clinical management of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the COVID-19 pandemic, with the focus on patient risks, and the implications of disease-modifying treatment, both on COVID-19 severity and on the response to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations. Although MS per se does no...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is by far the most common central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease (CNS-IDD). It is diagnosed according to detailed criteria based on clinical definitions, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cerebrospinal fluid findings. However, in rare instances, atypical syndromes associated with CNS demyelination, such...
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Background and Objectives Since vaccination against COVID-19 is available for over a year and the population of immunized individuals with autoimmune disorders is higher than several months before, an evaluation of safety and registered adverse events can be made. We conducted a large study of side effects following the COVID-19 vaccine among patie...
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Baló's concentric sclerosis (BCS) is a rare demyelinating disorder characterized by acute or subacute neurological symptoms associated with characteristic lesions of concentric onion skin appearance on MRI images and in pathology. The connection between BCS and classic MS is still a subject of debates. Our report presents a case of a patient who de...
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(1) Background: The present study aims to report the side effects of vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were being treated with disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) in Poland. (2) Methods: The study included 2261 patients with MS who were being treated with DMTs, and who were vaccin...
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Aim of the study: To assess differences in BBB damage profiles by measuring serum levels of soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (sVCAM-1), soluble platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (sPECAM-1), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1), and S100 calcium-binding protein B (S100B) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis...
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Aim of the study: To evaluate serum anti-aquaporin antibodies profile, to measure serum levels of cell-cell adhesion molecules as potential markers of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and to assess their relationship in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOsd) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Clinical rationale for the study: Serum lev...
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders are autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system marked by inflammatory demyelination, axonal loss and astrocytopathy, associated with lesions in the brain and in the spinal cord and with the presence of antibodies against aquaporin 4 (AQP4-IgG). Various studies on neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder...
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A 35-year-old man sought care for progressive visual disturbance. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed a large, left-sided, parieto-occipital, contrast-enhancing lesion. He was treated with dexamethasone with brief improvement in vision. Within 5 days he had progressive vision worsening. Two weeks after the onset of his symptoms, brain ma...
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(1) Background: To report and analyze the presence of residual symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection among Polish patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with different disease-modifying therapies (DMTs). (2) Methods: The study included 426 individuals with MS treated with DMTs and confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection from 12 Polish MS centers. The d...
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Objective To compare clinical characteristics across immunopathological subtypes of patients with multiple sclerosis. Methods Immunopathological subtyping was performed on specimens from 547 patients with biopsy and/or autopsy confirmed CNS demyelination. Results The frequency of immunopathological subtypes were pattern I (23%), II (56%), and III...
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Background: Limited studies have described long-term outcomes in pathology confirmed multiple sclerosis (MS). Objectives: To describe long-term clinical-radiographic-cognitive outcomes in a prospectively followed cohort of patients with pathologically confirmed CNS demyelinating disease, consistent with MS. Methods: Subjects underwent clinical...
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Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecologic malignancy worldwide. Although the primary response to chemo-therapy is high, the majority of patients will develop resistance against applied treatment. In this study, we focused on resistance to cisplatin, a first-line drug used for the treatment of ovarian cancer. The mechanism of the resistance deve...
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Introduction: The aim of this study was to report the course and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) in Poland. A major concern for neurologists worldwide is the course and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with MS treated with different DMTs. Although initia...
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Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system, and their immunogenicity is key in achieving protection against specific pathogens. Questions have been raised whether in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients they could induce disease exacerbation and whether vaccines could possibly act as a trigger in the onset of MS in susceptible populations. So far,...
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A working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society has developed a statement with regard to the currently available mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) preventing novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2) infection, which causes Coronavir...
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Objectives. Treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the era of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic raises many questions for doctors. Case reports. We are presenting two cases of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with interferon beta-1b and interferon beta-1a, who suffered from severe acute respiratory syndrome co...
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Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-associated disease (MOGAD) is a rare, antibody-mediated inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) with various phenotypes starting from optic neuritis, via transverse myelitis to acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and cortical encephalitis. Even though sometimes the c...
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Celem raportu jest pokazanie specyfiki choroby oraz zwiększenie wiedzy o wtórnie postępującej postaci stwardnienia rozsianego. Wtórnie postępująca postać stwardnienia rozsianego (SPMS) wiąże się z systematycznym pogarszaniem stanu zdrowia pacjentów, często osób w wieku produkcyjnym, mających obowiązki zawodowe i rodzinne. Chorzy z SPMS pozostają os...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used method for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that is essential for the detection and follow-up of the disease. OBJECTIVE: The Polish Medical Society of Radiology (PLTR) and the Polish Society of Neurology (PTN) present the second version of their recommendations for investigations routinely conduc...
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Background: While interferon beta-1b (IFN-β-1b) is still a commonly used disease-modifying drug in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), therapeutic possibilities are expanding, and treatment failure should be identified early. Markers to predict response to IFN-β-1b, either clinical or biochemical, are therefore urgently needed. Interferon-in...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used method for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) that is essential for the detection and follow-up of the disease. The Polish Medical Society of Radiology (PLTR) and the Polish Society of Neurology (PTN) present the second version of the recommendations for examinations routinely conducted in mag...
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Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common non-traumatic neurological cause of disability in young adults, affecting women 1-3 times more often than men. Several specific challenges arise from the fact that young women diagnosed with MS often have to make decisions related to treatment and family planning at the same time. These issu...
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Background Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibitors, such as infliximab, are commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other immune-mediated disorders. Objective To determine whether infliximab-associated central nervous system (CNS) demyelination can be differentiated from multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods We present a case o...
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Small Heat shock proteins (sHsp) are a group of chaperone proteins. Under conditions of stress, the expression of sHsp is increased. Therefore, they are implicated in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune-mediated disorders and cancer. The purpose of this study was to analyze sHsp expression in exosomes from patients with gynecologic cancers and c...
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The blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption is a critical step in paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) development. Several cytokines have been implicated in BBB breakdown. However, the exact step-by-step mechanism in which PNS develops is unknown, and the relationship between a systemic neoplasm and BBB is multilevel. The aim of the present stu...
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Aim: The aim of this study was to assess degenerative lesion localisation in the course of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and to identify the association between localisation and the frequency of T1-hypointense lesions (black holes) with cognitive dysfunction. We also searched for neuroradiological predictors of cognitive dysfunctio...
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Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to evaluate granzyme B, perforin and FasL expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in lung cancer patients and in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS). Clinical rationale for the study: Cellular immune response is activated as part of anti-tumour reaction of the malignancy-bearin...
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Aim of the study: To determine the prevalence of anti-interferon-β binding (BAb) and neutralising antibodies (NAb), and to investigate whether NAb measured by luciferase-based cell assay can predict treatment response in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with interferon-β-1b (IFNβ-1b). Clinical rationale for the study: A subgroup of IFNβ-...
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Introduction: Prompt successful control of disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients improves outcomes. Therefore, tools to aid drug selection and detect non-responders are urgently needed. Although several biochemical markers for predicting response to treatment have been proposed, clinical markers involving relapses, imaging activity...
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Magnetic resonance imaging is widely used in diagnosing multiple sclerosis as a basic method for detecting and monitoring the disease. Introduction Polish Medical Society of Radiology presents the second version of the recommendations for the routinely conducted MRI in multiple sclerosis, which include new data and practical remarks for radiograph...
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Differentiation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from multiple sclerosis (MS) can be challenging, especially when neuropsychiatric (NP) symptoms are accompanied by white matter lesions in the brain. Given the lack of discriminative power of currently applied tools for their differentiation, there is an unmet need for other measures that can ai...
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Objective: Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) remains poorly understood. Damage within the CNS is driven by the autoimmune response; however, immunopathophysiology of neuropsychiatric (NP) SLE is multifactorial. Immune cell neurotrophin production could be neuroprotective against autoimmunity-driven CNS...
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Although neurons are the main source of neurotrophins in the healthy brain, neurotrophins can also be expressed in the immune system. We have previously shown that in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) lower immune-cell neurotrophin levels are associated with brain atrophy and cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study was to ass...
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Migraine has been reported as a risk factor for ischemic stroke or cardiovascular events, and dysfunction of endothelial cells has been evidenced in migraine patients. Proangiogenic factors are potential endothelial stimulators, and their disturbances can link abnormalities of endothelium with increased risk of vascular disorders. The aim of this s...
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Cognitive impairment is a significant clinical problem both in multiple sclerosis (MS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. In MS cognitive dysfunction has been associated with brain atrophy and total demyelinating lesion volume. In SLE cognitive impairment is much less understood, and its link to structural brain damage remains to be e...
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Adhesion molecules are involved in nerve growth, synaptic plasticity and myelin formation and maintenance process. Neural cell adhesion molecule (CD56 or NCAM) seems to play a crucial role in all the above-mentioned events. Having found poly-sialylated NCAM increased re-expression on demyelinated axons within multiple sclerosis plaques we assessed...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the levels of circulating CD14 in relation to the expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) in monocytes, and serum levels of TNF-α and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 (MIP-1) in migraine patients. Numerous studies revealed controversial changes in the components of the immune system during...
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Interferon beta (IFNb) preparations are commonly used as first-line therapy in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). They are, however, characterized by limited efficacy, partly due to the formation of anti-IFNb antibodies in patients. In this pilot study, we assessed with the ELISA method the presence of the binding antibodies (BAbs) agai...
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Platelet-Endothelial-Cell-Adhesion-Molecule-1 (PECAM-1) and Human-Vascular-CAM-1 (VCAM-1) are adhesion molecules involved in leukocyte-endothelial interaction. In our study serum levels of sPECAM-1 and sVCAM-1 were measured (ELISA) in twenty-nine patients during their first monosymptomatic optic neuritis (ON) episode. Anti-aquaporin-4-antibodies (A...
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Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune, demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) with typical clinical manifestations of optic neuritis and acute transverse myelitis attacks. Previously believed to be a variant of multiple sclerosis (MS), it is now considered an independent disorder which needs to be differentiated from MS. T...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with unknown etiology. It was recently suggested that autoimmunity, which had long been considered to be destructive in MS, might also play a protective role in the CNS of MS patients. Neurotrophins are polypeptides belo...
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS), causing cognitive impairment in 45-65% of patients. Beta-NGF facilitates proper cholinergic transmission in the healthy CNS. In MS-damaged tissue there is a relative deficit of neurotrophins that might be compensated by...
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Neurotrophins regulate neuronal survival and differentiation, and facilitate synaptic plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS). Although neurons are the major source of neurotrophic factors, they are also expressed within the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) fraction of the immunological system. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic in...
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While neurotrophins mediate cell survival and proliferation in the nervous system, they are also expressed within peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of the immunological system. In multiple sclerosis (MS) neurotrophins released from PBMCs might play a neuroprotective role, delaying neurodegeneration within central nervous system. We aimed f...