| Literature DB >> 20074275 |
M R Sandhya Rani1, Yaomin Xu, Jar-Chi Lee, Jennifer Shrock, Anupama Josyula, Joerg Schlaak, Swathi Chakraborthy, Nie Ja, Richard M Ransohoff, Richard A Rudick.
Abstract
Interferons (IFNs) are widely used in therapy for viral, neoplastic, and inflammatory disorders, but clinical response varies among patients. The biological basis for variable clinical response is not known. We determined the primary molecular response to IFN-beta (IFN-beta) injections in 35 treatment-naïve multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using a customized cDNA macroarray with 186 interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs). Our results revealed striking interindividual heterogeneity, both in the magnitude as well as the nature of the primary molecular response to IFN-beta injections. Despite marked between-subject variability in the molecular response, responses within individual subjects were stable over a 6-month interval. Our data suggest that clinical response to IFN-beta therapy for MS differs among patients because of qualitative rather than quantitative variability in the primary molecular response to the drug.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 20074275 PMCID： PMC2842953 DOI： 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05068.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci ISSN： 0077-8923 Impact factor: 5.691