Seika Inoue¹, Enrique Alvarez², Carrie M. Hersh³, Derrick Robertson⁴, Ayan Das Gupta⁵, Xixi Hu⁶, Ronald Zielman⁷, Ibolya Boer⁸, Andy Cheadle⁶, Jeffrey A. Cohen⁹ (1.Novartis Pharma K.K., Japan, 2.University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA, 3.Cleveland Clinic Mellen Program for MS, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 4.Multiple Sclerosis Division, Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, 5.Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India, 6.Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, USA, 7.Novartis Pharma B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8.Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, 9.Department of Neurology, Mellen MS Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA)

Ryoko Shibuya¹, Mamoru Yamamoto¹, Hirofumi Konishi², Koji Ishikuro³, Takamasa Nukui¹, Noriaki Hattori⁴, Yuji Nakatsuji¹ (1.Department of Neurology, Toyama University Hospital, Japan, 2.Toyama Prefectural Rehabilitation Hospital & Support Center for Children with Disabilities, Japan, 3.Department of Rehabilitation, Toyama University Hospital, Japan, 4.Department of Rehabilitation, Toyama University Hospital, Japan)

Satoru Oji, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Masaomi Yamamoto, Baku Hashimoto, Atsuo Miyauchi, Wataru Hara, Kazunari Monma, Tomohisa Dembo, Manabu Araki, Hikoaki Fukaura, Kyoichi Nomura, Ken-ichi Kaida (Neurology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Japan)

Jun Shinmi¹, Atsuko Katsumoto^1,2, Wakiro Sato^2,3, Youwei Lin^1,2, Tomoko Okamoto^1,2, Takashi Yamamura^2,3, Yuji Takahashi¹ (1.Department of Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan, 2.Multiple Sclerosis Center, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan, 3.Immunology Department, Institute of Neuroscience, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan)

Hikaru Kamiya, Nana Suzuki, Tomohiro Uemura, Shiori Kikuchi, Kohei Kano, Tsukasa Saito, Jun Sawada, Naoki Nakagawa (asahikawa medical university, Japan)

Takahiro Terauchi¹, Masanori Mizuno², Manami Maeta¹, Masako Suzuki¹, Tetsuya Maeda¹ (1.Iwate medical university department of Neurology, Japan, 2.Saiseikai utunomiya hospital department of Neurology, Japan)