Increased Serum Neurofilament Light and Thin Ganglion Cell–Inner Plexiform Layer Are Additive Risk Factors for Disease Activity in Early Multiple Sclerosis
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- Received February 10, 2021
- Accepted in final form May 10, 2021
- First Published August 4, 2021.
Author Disclosures
- Ting-Yi Lin, MD (ting-yi.lin{at}charite.de),
- Viktoriya Vitkova, MSc (vitkova.viktoriya{at}gmail.com),
- Susanna Asseyer, MD (susanna.asseyer{at}charite.de),
- Ivette Martorell Serra, MSc (ivettemartorell{at}gmail.com),
- Seyedamirhosein Motamedi, PhD (seyedamirhosein.motamedi{at}charite.de),
- Claudia Chien, PhD (claudia.chien{at}charite.de),
- Marc Ditzhaus, PhD (marc.ditzhaus{at}tu-dortmund.de),
- Athina Papadopoulou, MD (athina.papadopoulou{at}usb.ch),
- Pascal Benkert, PhD (pascal.benkert{at}usb.ch),
- Jens Kuhle, MD (jens.kuhle{at}usb.ch),
- Judith Bellmann-Strobl, MD (judith.bellmann-strobl{at}charite.de),
- Klemens Ruprecht, MD (klemens.ruprecht{at}charite.de),
- Friedemann Paul, MD (friedemann.paul{at}charite.de),
- Alexander U. Brandt, MD (alexander.brandt{at}charite.de) and
- Hanna G. Zimmermann, PhD
- Ting-Yi Lin, MD (ting-yi.lin{at}charite.de),
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- Viktoriya Vitkova, MSc (vitkova.viktoriya{at}gmail.com),
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- Susanna Asseyer, MD (susanna.asseyer{at}charite.de),
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Celgene, funding for travel to conference Alexion Pharma Germany GmbH, speaker honoraria Bayer Vital GmbH, speaker honoraria Roche Pharma AG, speaker honoraria
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- Ivette Martorell Serra, MSc (ivettemartorell{at}gmail.com),
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- Seyedamirhosein Motamedi, PhD (seyedamirhosein.motamedi{at}charite.de),
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Co-inventor on patent applications for retinal optical coherence tomography image analysis, unrelated to this work
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Einstein Junior Scholarship from Einstein Foundation Berlin
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- Claudia Chien, PhD (claudia.chien{at}charite.de),
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Bayer speaker honorarium unrelated to current study.
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Novartis research support unrelated to current study.
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- Marc Ditzhaus, PhD (marc.ditzhaus{at}tu-dortmund.de),
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(1) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Grant No PA-2409 5-1, from April 2018 till March 2021
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- Athina Papadopoulou, MD (athina.papadopoulou{at}usb.ch),
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Athina Papadopoulou has received speaker-fee from Sanofi-Genzyme and travel support from Bayer AG, Teva and Hoffmann-La Roche.
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(1) University of Basel, Basel CH (2) University Hospital of Basel, Basel CH
(1) Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society (2) ÂStiftung zur Förderung der gastroenterologischen und allgemeinen klinischen Forschung sowie
der medizinischen Bildauswertung (3) Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant number: P300PB_174480).NONE
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- Pascal Benkert, PhD (pascal.benkert{at}usb.ch),
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- Jens Kuhle, MD (jens.kuhle{at}usb.ch),
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(1) Bayer AG (2) Biogen (3) Celgene (4) Sanofi (5) Merck (4) Novartis (5) Octave Bioscience (6) Roche
(1) Swiss National Research Foundation (320030_189140/1)
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(1) Swiss MS Society (2) Progressive MS Alliance
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- Judith Bellmann-Strobl, MD (judith.bellmann-strobl{at}charite.de),
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Travel grants and speaking honoraria from Bayer Healthcare, Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Sanofi Genzyme, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Roche, and Novartis, none of them related to preparing this manuscript.
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- Klemens Ruprecht, MD (klemens.ruprecht{at}charite.de),
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(1)Bayer Healthcare, speaker honoraria (2)Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation, travel honoraria
(1) PLOS ONE, Academic Editor, since 2013
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(1) Neurologie in Frage und Antwort, Elsevier, 2000-2015
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(1) Novartis (2) Merck Serono
(1) German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF/KKNMS, Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis) (2) European Union (821283-2)
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(1) Dr. med. Arthur Arnstein Foundation (2) Stiftung Charité (BIH Clinical Fellow)
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- Friedemann Paul, MD (friedemann.paul{at}charite.de),
Novartis OCTIMS study steering committee MedImmune / Viela Bio steering committee
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speaker honoraria and travel grants from Bayer, Novartis, Biogen Idec, Teva, Sanofi-Aventis / Genzyme, and Merck Serono, Alexion, Chugai, MedImmune, Shire, Roche, Actelion, Celgene
Academic Editor, PLoS ONE Associate Editor, Neurology Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation
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consultancies for SanofiGenzyme, BiogenIdec, MedImmune, Shire, Alexion
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Research support from from Bayer, Novartis, Biogen Idec, Teva, Sanofi-Aventis / Genzyme, Alexion and Merck Serono
German Research Council (DFG Exc 257), Werth Stiftung of the City of Cologne, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis), Arthur Arnstein Stiftung Berlin, EU FP7 Framework Program (combims.eu)
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Arthur Arnstein Foundation Berlin, Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society of the USA
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- Alexander U. Brandt, MD (alexander.brandt{at}charite.de) and
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(1) Patents issued and pending on Perceptive Visual Computing based Motor Function Analysis (2) Patents issued and pending on retinal image analysis (3) Patent on Multiple Sclerosis Serum Biomarker
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(1) Serves on the executive board of IMSVISUAL
(1) UCI MS Center, Optical coherence tomography (2) Charité ECRC, Optical coherence tomography
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(1) BMWi, ZIM KF2443803KJ, PI, two years (2) BMWi, ZIM KF2291305AK3, Co-I, one year (3) BMWI, EXIST-FT 03EFEBE079, PI, two years (4) BMBF, NEU2 N2-ADVISIMS, Co-I, three years
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(1) The Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation Stock/Stock Options, Medical Equipment & Materials: (1) Motognosis GmbH, 2014 (ongoing) (2) Nocturne GmbH, 2018 (ongoing)
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- Hanna G. Zimmermann, PhD
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(1) Bayer Healthcare, Speaker Honoraria
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(1) Novartis
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- From the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (T.-Y.L., V.V., S.A., I.M.S., S.M., C.C., A.P., J.B.-S., F.P., A.U.B., H.G.Z.), Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health; NeuroCure Clinical Research Center (T.-Y.L., V.V., S.A., I.M.S., S.M., C.C., A.P., J.B.-S., F.P., A.U.B., H.G.Z.), Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (C.C.), Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health; Department of Statistics (M.D.), TU Dortmund University, Germany; Neurology Clinic and Policlinic (A.P., J.K.), MS Center and Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), University Hospital Basel; Clinical Trial Unit (P.B.), Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (K.R., F.P.), Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany; and Department of Neurology (A.U.B.), University of California, Irvine.
- Correspondence
Dr. Zimmermann hanna.zimmermann{at}charite.de
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