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 …

Toward the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease: rational strategies and recent progress

S Gandy, ST DeKosky - Annual review of medicine, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the major cause of late-life brain failure. In the past 25 years,
autosomal dominant forms of AD were found to be primariy attributable to mutations in one …

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 …

Redundant Gs-coupled serotonin receptors regulate amyloid-β metabolism in vivo

JR Fisher, CE Wallace, DL Tripoli, YI Sheline… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Background The aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into insoluble plaques is a hallmark
pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previous work has shown increasing serotonin …

Frontiers in Alzheimer's disease therapeutics

JG Stone, G Casadesus… - … advances in chronic …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which begins with
insidious deterioration of higher cognition and progresses to severe dementia. Clinical …

Early administration of RS 67333, a specific 5-HT4 receptor agonist, prevents amyloidogenesis and behavioral deficits in the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's …

P Giannoni, F Gaven, D De Bundel… - Frontiers in aging …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Amyloid β (Aβ) accumulation is considered the main culprit in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that decreasing Aβ production at very …

Design of depression in Alzheimer's disease study-2

BK Martin, CE Frangakis, PB Rosenberg… - The American journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Objective Research on the efficacy of antidepressant therapy for depressive symptoms in
Alzheimer disease has been hampered by lack of systematic diagnosis, small sample sizes …

Biological factors influencing depression in later life: role of aging processes and treatment implications

SM Szymkowicz, AR Gerlach, D Homiack… - Translational …, 2023 - nature.com
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is
characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and …

The putative neurodegenerative links between depression and Alzheimer's disease

S Wuwongse, RCC Chang, ACK Law - Progress in Neurobiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading neurodegenerative cause of dementia in the elderly.
Thus far, there is no curative treatment for this devastating condition, thereby creating …

Why do so many drugs for Alzheimer's disease fail in development? Time for new methods and new practices?

RE Becker, NH Greig… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2008 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug developments and clinical trials (CT) remain vulnerable to
problems that undermine research validity. Investigations of CT methods reveal how …