Paolicelli, Damiano http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8645-1763
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Lucisano, Giuseppe
Manni, Alessia
Avolio, Carlo
Bonavita, Simona
Brescia Morra, Vincenzo
Capobianco, Marco
Cocco, Eleonora
Conte, Antonella
De Luca, Giovanna
De Robertis, Francesca
Gasperini, Claudio
Gatto, Maurizia
Gazzola, Paola
Lus, Giacomo
Iaffaldano, Antonio
Iaffaldano, Pietro
Maimone, Davide
Mallucci, Giulia
Maniscalco, Giorgia T.
Marfia, Girolama A.
Patti, Francesco
Pesci, Ilaria
Pozzilli, Carlo
Rovaris, Marco
Salemi, Giuseppe
Salvetti, Marco
Spitaleri, Daniele
Totaro, Rocco
Zaffaroni, Mauro
Comi, Giancarlo
Amato, Maria Pia
Trojano, Maria
Article History
Received: 11 July 2019
Revised: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 6 September 2019
First Online: 18 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: G. Lucisano, A. Manni, S. Bonavita, V. Brescia Morra, A. Conte, F. De Robertis, P. Gazzola, A. Iaffaldano, C. Gasperini, M. Gatto, G.T. Maniscalco, I. Pesci report no disclosures relevant to the manuscript. D. Paolicelli received advisory board membership, speakers honoraria, travel support, research grants, consulting fees, or clinical trial support from Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen, Celgene, Excemed, Genzyme, Merck, Mylan, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, Teva. M.P. Amato has received research grants and honoraria as a speaker and member of advisory boards by Biogen, Merck, Sanofi Genzyme, Teva, Novartis, Roche. C. Avolio served on scientific advisory boards for Merck, Sanofi-Genzyme and Roche, and has received travel and/or speaker honoraria from Merck, Roche, Teva, Biogen, Novartis and Sanofi-Genzyme. M. Capobianco received personal compensation for speaking at meeting or participating in advisory board from Almirall, Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche. E. Cocco has served on scientific Advisory Boards for Bayer, Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi Genzyme and TEVA; she also received speaker honoraria and research grants for her department by the same companies. G. Comi received personal compensation for consulting services and/or speaking activities from Novartis, Teva, Sanofi, Sanofi-Genzyme, Merck, Biogen, Excemed, Serono Symposia International Foundation, Roche, Almirall, Receptos, Celgene, and Forward Pharma. G. De Luca served on scientific advisory boards for Merck, Sanofi-Genzyme and Roche, and has received travel and/or speaker honoraria from Merck, Roche, Teva, Biogen, Novartis and Sanofi-Genzyme. G. Lus receveid travel fundings, research support, speaker honoraria from: Biogen, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, Bayer, Teva, Almirall, Allergan, Ipsen, Merck, Merz Pharma Italia. P. Iaffaldano received advisory board membership, speaker honoraria, travel support, research grants, consulting fees, or clinical trial support from Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen, Celgene, Excemed, Genzyme, Merck, Mylan, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, Teva. D. Maimone receveid travel funds and speaker honoraria from Biogen, Novartis, Sanofi Genzyme, Teva, Almirall, Merck, Roche. G. Mallucci received support to travel to scientific meetings from Bayer Schering, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Teva; received research grants for the MS Center at IRCCS Mondino, Pavia, Italy from Biogen and served on the scientific advisory board for Biogen, Genzyme and Merck Serono. G.A. Marfia is an Advisory Board member of Biogen Idec, Genzyme, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Teva and received honoraria for speaking or consultation fees from Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Novartis, Sanofi-Genzyme, Teva. She is the principal investigator in clinical trials for Actelion, Biogen Idec, Merck Serono, Mitsubishi, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme, Teva. F. Patti has received honoraria for speaking activities by Bayer Schering, Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Roche, TEVA and Sanofi Aventis; he also served as advisory board member the following companies: Bayer Schering, Roche, Biogen, Merck, Novartis; he was also funded by Pfizer and FISM for epidemiological studies; finally he received grant for congress participation from Bayer Schering, Roche, Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Sanofi Aventis, and TEVA. C. Pozzilli has received consultant fees from Actelion, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Teva Neurosciences and grant or research support from Biogen, Merck-serono, Novartis and Teva neuroscinces. M. Rovaris received fees for consulting or scientific speaking from Almirall, Biogen, Genzyme-Sanofi, Merck Serono and TEVA. G. Salemi received grants and honoraria by Almirall, Biogen-Dompè, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and TEVA. M. Salvetti received research support and consulting fees from Biogen, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Teva. D. Spitaleri received fees for consulting or congress participation from Novartis, TEVA, Sanofi and Biogen. R. Totaro has served on advisory boards and/or received honoraria for speaking or consultation fees from Biogen, CSL behring, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Genzyme, Shire, Teva. M. Zaffaroni received personal financial support for attending scientific meetings from Merck and financial support for his Department from Novartis. M. Trojano received advisory board membership, speaker honoraria, travel support, research grants, consulting fees, or clinical trial support from Actelion, Allergan, Almirall, Bayer Schering, Biogen, Celgene, Excemed, Genzyme, Merck, Mylan, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, Teva.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. The study was approved by the Ethic Committee of AOU Policlinico, Bari on 17 July 2018; ID number 0060669.