Alzheimer disease therapeutics: focus on the disease and not just plaques and tangles

K Iqbal, F Liu, CX Gong - Biochemical pharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
The bulk of AD research during the last 25 years has been Aβ-centric based on a strong faith
in the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis which is not supported by the data on humans. To date …

Alzheimer's disease mechanisms and emerging roads to novel therapeutics

C Sala Frigerio, B De Strooper - Annual review of neuroscience, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Ten years of remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental biochemistry of
Alzheimer's disease have been followed by ten years of remarkable and increasing clinical …

Alzheimer disease therapy—moving from amyloid-β to tau

E Giacobini, G Gold - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer disease (AD) have focused mainly on reducing
levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain. Some compounds have achieved this goal, but none …

Alzheimer's disease: pathological mechanisms and recent insights

DM Niedowicz, PT Nelson… - Current …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Amyloidopathies cause neurodegeneration in a substantial portion of the elderly population.
Improvements in long term health care have made elderly individuals a large and growing …

Neuroprotective therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease: progress and prospects

AM Palmer - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2011 - cell.com
The number of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has never been greater and is set to
increase substantially in the decades ahead as the proportion of the population aged 65 …

Preclinical and clinical challenges in the development of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease

CA Scorer - Drug discovery today, 2001 - Elsevier
The neurodegenerative disease first described almost 100 years ago by Alois Alzheimer is
predicted to be one of the major health problems of the 21st century. Alzheimer's disease …

Treatment of Alzheimer's disease: from pharmacology to a better understanding of disease pathophysiology

G Silvestrelli, A Lanari, L Parnetti, D Tomassoni… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2006 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of cognitive impairment in older
patients and is expected to increase greatly in prevalence in the next future. It is …

Advances and challenges in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

RD Brinton, RS Yamazaki - Pharmaceutical Research, 1998 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and accounts for one-half
to three-fourths of all cases of dementia. In the United States, AD is the leading cause of a …

Advances in developing novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease

J Cao, J Hou, J Ping, D Cai - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease of aging,
affects one in eight older Americans. Nearly all drug treatments tested for AD today have …

Clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease: a hurdle in the path of remedy

AE Oxford, ES Stewart, TT Rohn - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Human clinical trials seek to ameliorate the disease states and symptomatic progression of
illnesses that, as of yet, are largely untreatable according to clinical standards. Ideally …