Fingolimod (FTY720), an immunomodulator that acts on sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors, is the first oral disease-modifying agent to be approved by the US FDA for the treatment of relapsing forms ...

Sphingosine is a membrane component in all cells and constitutes 25% of the lipid in the myelin sheath. Sphingosine is phosphorylated by ubiquitously expressed sphingosine kinases. S1P regulates ...

In his recent doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Helsinki, Matej Zore investigated two drugs, fingolimod and etrasimod—initially developed to treat autoimmune diseases—for their ...