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Reviewing the Significance of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Multiple Sclerosis Pathology and Treatment

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DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168370

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multiple sclerosis; blood-brain barrier; impermeability; disease modifying therapies progression

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  1. University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology George Emil Palade of Targu Mures Research [10126/2/17.12.2020]

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This review discusses the disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis, focusing on the impairment of the neurovascular unit (NVU) and metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunctions of BBB’s endothelial cells. It highlights the hypoxic hypothesis in MS, potential mechanisms of neurodegeneration in progressive forms of MS, and the possibility of BBB as a therapeutic target for delivering neuroprotective molecules into the central nervous system. Additionally, it explores the beneficial effects of disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) that can cross the BBB and act directly in the CNS.
The disruption of blood-brain barrier (BBB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis has a double effect: early on during the onset of the immune attack and later for the CNS self-sustained 'inside-out' demyelination and neurodegeneration processes. This review presents the characteristics of BBB malfunction in MS but mostly highlights current developments regarding the impairment of the neurovascular unit (NVU) and the metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunctions of the BBB's endothelial cells. The hypoxic hypothesis is largely studied and agreed upon recently in the pathologic processes in MS. Hypoxia in MS might be produced per se by the NVU malfunction or secondary to mitochondria dysfunction. We present three different but related terms that denominate the ongoing neurodegenerative process in progressive forms of MS that are indirectly related to BBB disruption: progression independent of relapses, no evidence of disease activity and smoldering demyelination or silent progression. Dimethyl fumarate (DMF), modulators of S1P receptor, cladribine and laquinimode are DMTs that are able to cross the BBB and exhibit beneficial direct effects in the CNS with very different mechanisms of action, providing hope that a combined therapy might be effective in treating MS. Detailed mechanisms of action of these DMTs are described and also illustrated in dedicated images. With increasing knowledge about the involvement of BBB in MS pathology, BBB might become a therapeutic target in MS not only to make it impenetrable against activated immune cells but also to allow molecules that have a neuroprotective effect in reaching the cell target inside the CNS.

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