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Comparative pharmacogenetics of multiple sclerosis: IFN-β versus glatiramer acetate.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Apr 2014
Kulakova Olga G, Tsareva Ekaterina Yu, Lvovs Dmitrijs, Favorov Alexander V, Boyko Alexey N, Favorova Olga O
Abstract excerpt
Various diseases require the selection of preferable treatment out of available alternatives. Multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune inflammatory/neurodegenerative disease of the CNS, requires long-term medication with either specific disease-modifying therapy (DMT) - IFN-β or glatiramer acetate (GA) - which remain the only first-line DMTs in all countries. A significant share of MS patients are resistant to...
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