Improved cognition in Alzheimer's disease with short-term D-cycloserine treatment

GE Tsai, WE Falk, J Gunther… - American journal of …, 1999 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Glutamatergic neurotransmission is important for memory and cognition and is
severely affected in Alzheimer's disease. d-Cycloserine exhibits partial agonist activity at the …

A Preliminary Study of d-Cycloserine Treatment in Alzheimer's Disease

GE Tsai, WE Falk, J Gunther - The Journal of …, 1998 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
d-cycloserine is a partial agonist on the glycine site of the N-methyl-d-aspartate glutamate
receptor. This double-blind crossover study of 15 mg d-cycloserine in Alzheimer's disease …

D-cycloserine treatment of Alzheimer disease

C Randolph, JW Roberts, MC Tierney… - Alzheimer Disease & …, 1994 - journals.lww.com
Degeneration of cortical glutamatergic projections may contribute to the cognitive decline in
Alzheimer disease (AD). To evaluate whether 1glutamate system stimulation might confer …

d-Cycloserine enhances implicit memory in Alzheimer patients

BL Schwartz, S Hashtroudi, RL Herting, P Schwartz… - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
We tested the ability of d-cycloserine, a partial glycine agonist acting at the N-methyl-D-
aspartate (NMDA) receptor complex, to improve implicit memory in Alzheimer patients in a …

Evaluation of cycloserine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

TD Fakouhi, SS Jhee, JJ Sramek… - Journal of geriatric …, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
This multicenter study evaluated the efficacy and safety of cycloserine and measured its
effects on explicit and implicit memory tests in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Four …

A placebo-controlled trial of D-cycloserine added to conventional neuroleptics in patients with schizophrenia

DC Goff, G Tsai, J Levitt, E Amico… - Archives of general …, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
Background In a preliminary dose-finding study, D-cycloserine, a partial agonist at the
glycine modulatory site of the glutamatergicN-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor …

D‐cycloserine for Alzheimer's disease

R Jones, K Laake, AR Øksengård… - Cochrane Database …, 1996 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Evidence supports a role for NMDA receptors in learning and memory. These
can be modulated by the antibiotic D‐cycloserine in such a way that the effect of the …

D-cycloserine reverses the working memory impairment of hippocampal-lesioned rats in a spatial learning task

GM Schuster, WJ Schmidt - European journal of pharmacology, 1992 - Elsevier
It is shown that D-cycloserine has cognition-enhancing properties in quinolinic acid
hippocampal-lesioned rats. Lesioned rats had a severe impairment of working memory in an …

Effects of NMDA modulation in scopolamine dementia.

RW Jones, KA Wesnes, J Kirby - Annals of the New York Academy …, 1991 - europepmc.org
D-Cycloserine is a partial agonist at the strychnine-insensitive neuronal glycine receptor and
positively modulates the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) excitatory amino acid receptor …

D-Cycloserine: Agonist turned antagonist

TH Lanthorn - Amino Acids, 1994 - Springer
D-Cycloserine can enhance activation of the NMDA receptor complex and could enhance
the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP). In animals and humans, D-cycloserine can …