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      Autoantibodies to MOG in a distinct subgroup of adult multiple sclerosis

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          Objectives:

          To evaluate the presence of antibodies to conformation-intact myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) in a subgroup of adult patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) preselected for a specific clinical phenotype including severe spinal cord, optic nerve, and brainstem involvement.

          Methods:

          Antibodies to MOG were investigated using a cell-based assay in 3 groups of patients: 104 preselected patients with MS (group 1), 55 age- and sex-matched, otherwise unselected patients with MS (group 2), and in 22 brain-biopsied patients with demyelinating diseases of the CNS (n = 19 with MS), 4 of whom classified as MS type II (group 3). Recognized epitopes were identified with mutated variants of MOG.

          Results:

          Antibodies to MOG were found in about 5% (5/104) of preselected adult patients with MS. In contrast, in groups 2 and 3, none of the patients tested positive for MOG antibodies. Patients with MS with antibodies to MOG predominantly manifested with concomitant severe brainstem and spinal cord involvement and had a severe disease course with high relapse rates and failure to several disease-modifying therapies. Three of them had been treated with plasma exchange with a favorable response. All anti-MOG–positive patients with MS showed typical MS lesions on brain MRI. Longitudinal analysis up to 9 years revealed fluctuations and reappearance of anti-MOG reactivity. Epitope mapping indicated interindividual heterogeneity, yet intraindividual stability of the antibody response.

          Conclusions:

          Antibodies to MOG can be found in a distinct subgroup of adult MS with a specific clinical phenotype and may indicate disease heterogeneity.

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          Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score: using disability and disease duration to rate disease severity.

          R H S R Roxburgh, S. R. Seaman, T Masterman … (2005)
          There is no consensus method for determining progression of disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) when each patient has had only a single assessment in the course of the disease. Using data from two large longitudinal databases, the authors tested whether cross-sectional disability assessments are representative of disease severity as a whole. An algorithm, the Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score (MSSS), which relates scores on the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) to the distribution of disability in patients with comparable disease durations, was devised and then applied to a collection of 9,892 patients from 11 countries to create the Global MSSS. In order to compare different methods of detecting such effects the authors simulated the effects of a genetic factor on disability. Cross-sectional EDSS measurements made after the first year were representative of overall disease severity. The MSSS was more powerful than the other methods the authors tested for detecting different rates of disease progression. The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score (MSSS) is a powerful method for comparing disease progression using single assessment data. The Global MSSS can be used as a reference table for future disability comparisons. While useful for comparing groups of patients, disease fluctuation precludes its use as a predictor of future disability in an individual.
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            MOG cell-based assay detects non-MS patients with inflammatory neurologic disease

            Patrick Waters, Mark Woodhall, Kevin O'Connor … (2015)
            Objective: To optimize sensitivity and disease specificity of a myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody assay. Methods: Consecutive sera (n = 1,109) sent for aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody testing were screened for MOG antibodies (Abs) by cell-based assays using either full-length human MOG (FL-MOG) or the short-length form (SL-MOG). The Abs were initially detected by Alexa Fluor goat anti-human IgG (H + L) and subsequently by Alexa Fluor mouse antibodies to human IgG1. Results: When tested at 1:20 dilution, 40/1,109 sera were positive for AQP4-Abs, 21 for SL-MOG, and 180 for FL-MOG. Only one of the 40 AQP4-Ab–positive sera was positive for SL-MOG-Abs, but 10 (25%) were positive for FL-MOG-Abs (p = 0.0069). Of equal concern, 48% (42/88) of sera from controls (patients with epilepsy) were positive by FL-MOG assay. However, using an IgG1-specific secondary antibody, only 65/1,109 (5.8%) sera were positive on FL-MOG, and AQP4-Ab– positive and control sera were negative. IgM reactivity accounted for the remaining anti-human IgG (H + L) positivity toward FL-MOG. The clinical diagnoses were obtained in 33 FL-MOG–positive patients, blinded to the antibody data. IgG1-Abs to FL-MOG were associated with optic neuritis (n = 11), AQP4-seronegative neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (n = 4), and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (n = 1). All 7 patients with probable multiple sclerosis (MS) were MOG-IgG1 negative. Conclusions: The limited disease specificity of FL-MOG-Abs identified using Alexa Fluor goat anti-human IgG (H + L) is due in part to detection of IgM-Abs. Use of the FL-MOG and restricting to IgG1-Abs substantially improves specificity for non-MS demyelinating diseases. Classification of evidence: This study provides Class II evidence that the presence of serum IgG1- MOG-Abs in AQP4-Ab–negative patients distinguishes non-MS CNS demyelinating disorders from MS (sensitivity 24%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 9%–45%; specificity 100%, 95% CI 88%–100%).
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              Overlapping demyelinating syndromes and anti–N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis.

              Maarten J. Titulaer, Romana Höftberger, Takahiro Iizuka … (2014)
              To report the clinical, radiological, and immunological association of demyelinating disorders with anti–Nmethyl- D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis. Clinical and radiological analysis was done of a cohort of 691 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis. Determination of antibodies to NMDAR, aquaporin-4 (AQP4), and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) was performed using brain immunohistochemistry and cell-based assays. Twenty-three of 691 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis had prominent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or clinical features of demyelination. Group 1 included 12 patients in whom anti-NMDAR encephalitis was preceded or followed by independent episodes of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) spectrum disorder (5 cases, 4 anti-AQP4 positive) or brainstem or multifocal demyelinating syndromes (7 cases, all anti-MOG positive). Group 2 included 11 patients in whom anti-NMDAR encephalitis occurred simultaneously with MRI and symptoms compatible with demyelination (5 AQ4 positive, 2 MOG positive). Group 3 (136 controls) included 50 randomly selected patients with typical anti-NMDAR encephalitis, 56 with NMO, and 30 with multiple sclerosis; NMDAR antibodies were detected only in the 50 anti-NMDAR patients, MOG antibodies in 3 of 50 anti-NMDAR and 1 of 56 NMO patients, and AQP4 antibodies in 48 of 56 NMO and 1 of 50 anti-NMDAR patients (p<0.0001 for all comparisons with Groups 1 and 2). Most patients improved with immunotherapy, but compared with anti-NMDAR encephalitis the demyelinating episodes required more intensive therapy and resulted in more residual deficits. Only 1 of 23 NMDAR patients with signs of demyelination had ovarian teratoma compared with 18 of 50 anti-NMDAR controls (p50.011). Patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis may develop concurrent or separate episodes of demyelinating disorders, and conversely patients with NMO or demyelinating disorders with atypical symptoms (eg, dyskinesias, psychosis) may have anti-NMDAR encephalitis.
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                Melania Spadaro:
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                1. (1) Novartis, travel grant for scientific congress (2) Biogen, travel grant for scientific congress

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                1. (1) Siemens, speaker honoraria, travel expenses (2) Philips, speaker honoraria, travel expenses (3) Bracco, travel expenses (4) Bayer Schering, speaker honoraria, travel expenses

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                1. I serve on the advisory board of Genzyme, Novartis, Biogenand Teva Pharma.

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                1. I received honoraria for oral presentations from Teva,Sanofi, Genzyme, Novartis, Merck-Serono, Biogen and Bayer in the last 2 years.

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                1. I am editorial board member of Acta neuropathologica, Therapeutic Advances in Neurological disorders, Multiple Sclerosis International and Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

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                1. (1) Teva Pharma, (2) Novartis, (3) Biogen, (4) Genzyme

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                1. German Research foundation (DFG SFB TR43): The brain as a target of inflammatory processes, 2008-2015 German ministry for science and education: Competence network multiple sclerosis, 2010-2018

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                1. Received funding for trips from Novartis; Biogen-Idec; Bayer-Schering; Merck-Serono; Sanofi- Aventis; Teva; Genzyme

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                1. Serve as editorial board member of Neurology (currently); Brain; Clinical and Experimental Immunology; Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift; Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy; Journal of Neuroimmunology; Multiple Sclerosis; Nervenarzt; Practical Neurology; Seminars in Immunopathology; Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

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                1. (1) Honorarium from Roche

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                1. (1) Journal of Pathology, Editorial board, 2010 (2) Clinical Experimental Immunology, Editorial Board, 2010 (3) Plos One, 2014 (4) Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015

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                1. I have received travel expenses and personal compensations for lectures from Teva, Merck-Serono,Genzyme,Novartis Pharma and Biogen Idec

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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm
                Journal ID (hwp): nnn
                Journal ID (publisher-id): NEURIMMINFL
                Title: Neurology® Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
                Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Hagerstown, MD )
                ISSN (Electronic): 2332-7812
                Publication date (Electronic): 30 June 2016
                Publication date Collection: October 2016
                Publication date PMC-release: 30 June 2016
                Volume: 3
                Issue: 5
                Electronic Location Identifier: e257
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                From the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology (M.S., L.A.G., M.K., F.S.T., E.S., R.H., E.M., T.K.), Department of Radiology (B.E.-W.), and Laboratory for Immunogenetics (A.D.), Medical Campus Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Department of Neurology (M.K.), Hertie Institut für klinische Hirnforschung, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen; Department of Neuropathology (I.M., W.B.), University Medical Center, Georg August University, Göttingen; Department of Paediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine (A.B.), Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (R.H.), Munich, Germany.
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                Correspondence to Dr. Kümpfel: Tania.kuempfel@ 123456med.uni-muenchen.de
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                These authors contributed equally to this work.

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                Publisher ID: NEURIMMINFL2016009266
                DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000257
                PMC ID: 4949775
                PubMed ID: 27458601
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                Date received : 04 February 2016
                Date accepted : 31 May 2016
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                Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
                Award ID: SFB-TR 128; B8, SyNergy
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