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The first line drugs reduce disease activity and progression only moderately and the second line drugs are characterized by serious possible side effects such as development of ARQ 197 msds progressive multifocal leukencephalopa thy for natalizumab and cardiotoxicity for mitoxantrone. Moreover, all drugs mentioned above require either sub cutaneous or intramuscular injections or intravenous infusions. Thus, there is a high demand for orally active, highly efficious drugs with limited side effects. One such candidate might be dimethylfumarate, which is the active ingredient of an oral formulation of fumaric acid esters with proven effectiveness in patients with chronic plaque psoriasis, a dermatological disorder with immune dysfunction.<br><br> In experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of MS, DMF and its hydrolysis product monomethylfumarate inhibit the disease course, inhibit macrophage activation in the spinal cord and increase expression of interleukin 10. In patients with relapsing remitting MS, DMF reduced new inflammatory lesions in serial AZD0530 価格 MRI scans in a Phase II trial. These positive results have led to the initiation of two interna tional multi center double blind and placebo controlled Phase III studies to further test the efficacy of the drugPatients are currently recruited for the DEFINE and the CONFIRM studies. Despite the demonstrated benefits, there are only few experimental data available concerning DMF mediated influences on the glial especially microglial environ ment in the CNS.<br><br> This could be of interest because part of the AMN-107 bcr-Abl 阻害剤 effect could be mediated via interference with pro inflammatory microglia cell functionsIn multiple sclero sis infiltration of T cells into the nervous system initiates a complex immunological cascade consisting of epitope spreading, which triggers new attacks, and activation of the innate immune system which leads to chronic inflammation. Studies using PET scans have shown clusters of activated microglia in MS in vivo. Autopsies studies have shown that diffuse axonal injury with profound microglia activation is found even in normal appearing white matter. Microglia are dis tributed throughout the CNS as a network of resting immunocompetent cells derived from the monocyte macrophage lineage. The cells become rapidly activated in response to injury or in the presence of pathogens and like other tissue macrophages in the first line of host defense play a pivotal role as phagocytic, antigen pre senting cells.<br><br> However, it is also this efficient defensive action that makes them potentially neurotoxic cells. By releasing various kinds of noxious factors such as proin flammatory cytokines or proin flammatory molecules like nitric oxide microglia may potentiate damage to CNS cells. IL 1B and NO are expressed in chronic active plaques in MS patients. NO reacts with superoxide anion to gener ate peroxynitrite, a highly reactive molecule capable of oxidizing proteins, lipids and DNA. and which mediates microglial toxicity to oligodendrocytes NO can trig ger immune cascades that further enhance inflamma tory mediated CNS damageIncreased concentrations of NO can lead to enhanced expression of chemokine ligand 2 on astrocytes which, in turn, leads to infiltration of CD11b cells and additional tissue dam age.