Hillebrand, Sophie
Schanda, Kathrin
Nigritinou, Magdalini
Tsymala, Irina
Böhm, Denise
Peschl, Patrick
Takai, Yoshiki
Fujihara, Kazuo
Nakashima, Ichiro
Misu, Tatsuro
Reindl, Markus
Lassmann, Hans
Bradl, Monika http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-1586
Funding for this research was provided by:
Austrian Science Fund (P28476-B30, DOC33-B27)
Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
Article History
Received: 6 November 2018
Revised: 12 December 2018
Accepted: 12 December 2018
First Online: 18 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: SH, KS, MN, IT, DB, PP, YT, IN, TM, and MB: the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. HL received honoraria for lectures from Novartis, Biogen, and Sanofi Aventis. Moreover, he is a member of advisory boards at Roche and Medday. The University Hospital and Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria, MR) receives payments for antibody assays (MOG, AQP4, and other autoantibodies) and for MOG and AQP4 antibody validation experiments organized by Euroimmun (Lübeck, Germany). K. Fujihara serves on scientific advisory boards for Bayer, Biogen, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Novartis, Chugai, Ono, Nihon, Merck Serono, Alexion, and MedImmune; has received funding for travel and speaker honoraria from Bayer, Biogen, Eisai, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Novartis, Astellas, Takeda, Asahi Kasei Medical, Daiichi-Sankyo, and Nihon; serves as an editorial board member of Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, Frontiers in Neurology (section Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology) and Neurology: Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation, and an advisory board member of Sri Lanka Journal of Neurology; has received research support from Bayer, Biogen, Asahi Kasei Medical, The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute, Teva, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Teijin, Chugai, Ono, Nihon, and Genzyme; is funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor of Japan.