Wing Hee Fung , Marike R. van Lingen , Jelle Y. Broos , Ka-Hoo Lam , Maureen van Dam , Wing Ka Fung , Samantha Noteboom , Ismail Koubiyr , Helga E. de Vries , Bas Jasperse , Charlotte E. Teunissen , Martin Giera , Joep Killestein , Hanneke E. Hulst , Eva M.M. Strijbis , Menno M. Schoonheim , Gijs Kooij
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Abstract
Background
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by extensive tissue damage leading to a range of complex symptoms, including physical disability and cognitive dysfunction. Recent work has indicated the clinical relevance of bioactive lipid mediators (LMs), which are known to orchestrate inflammation and its resolution and are deregulated in MS. However, it is unknown whether LM profiles relate to white matter (WM) damage.
Objectives
To investigate the potential association between plasma-derived LMs and MRI-quantified WM damage using fractional anisotropy (FA) and grey matter (GM) atrophy in dimethyl fumarate-treated relapsing remitting MS (RRMS) patients.
Methods
Severity of FA-based WM damage and GM atrophy was determined in RRMS patients (n = 28) compared to age- and sex-matched controls (n = 31) at treatment initiation (baseline) and after 6 months. Plasma LMs were assessed using HPLC-MS/MS and baseline LMs were correlated to changes in FA and brain volumes.
Results
We observed significant WM damage in RRMS patients (mean age 41.4 [SD 9.1]) at baseline and follow-up (z-score=-0.33 and 0.31, respectively) compared to controls (mean age 41.9 [SD 9.5]; p < 0.001 for both comparisons). Patients with severe WM damage showed a decline of thalamic volume (p = 0.02), and this decline correlated (r = 0.51, p < 0.001) with lower baseline levels of 9-HODE. This LM also predicted FA worsening (beta = 0.14, p < 0.001) over time at 6 months.
Conclusion
Despite the relatively small sample size, lower baseline levels of the LM 9-HODE correlated with more thalamic atrophy and predicted subsequent worsening of WM damage in RRMS patients.
期刊介绍:
Multiple Sclerosis is an area of ever expanding research and escalating publications. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders is a wide ranging international journal supported by key researchers from all neuroscience domains that focus on MS and associated disease of the central nervous system. The primary aim of this new journal is the rapid publication of high quality original research in the field. Important secondary aims will be timely updates and editorials on important scientific and clinical care advances, controversies in the field, and invited opinion articles from current thought leaders on topical issues. One section of the journal will focus on teaching, written to enhance the practice of community and academic neurologists involved in the care of MS patients. Summaries of key articles written for a lay audience will be provided as an on-line resource.
A team of four chief editors is supported by leading section editors who will commission and appraise original and review articles concerning: clinical neurology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuroepidemiology, therapeutics, genetics / transcriptomics, experimental models, neuroimmunology, biomarkers, neuropsychology, neurorehabilitation, measurement scales, teaching, neuroethics and lay communication.