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Bibiana Bielekova1, Nancy Richert, Thomas Howard, Gregg Blevins, Silva Markovic-Plese, Jennifer McCartin, Joseph A Frank, Jens Würfel, Joan Ohayon, Thomas A Waldmann, Henry F McFarland, Roland Martin.
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Identifying effective treatment combinations for MS patients failing standard therapy is an important goal. We report the results of a phase II open label baseline-to-treatment trial of a humanized monoclonal antibody against CD25 (daclizumab) in 10 multiple sclerosis patients with incomplete response to IFN-beta therapy and high brain inflammatory and clinical disease activity. Daclizumab was very well tolerated and led to a 78% reduction in new contrast-enhancing lesions and to a significant improvement in several clinical outcome measures.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15161974 PMCID: PMC423259 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402653101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205