The synapse as a treatment avenue for Alzheimer's Disease

L Peng, I Bestard-Lorigados, W Song - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with devastating symptoms,
including memory impairments and cognitive deficits. Hallmarks of AD pathology are …

[HTML][HTML] Memantine for the treatment of dementia: a review on its current and future applications

J Folch, O Busquets, M Ettcheto… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence in
the brain of extracellular amyloid-protein (A) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles …

[HTML][HTML] Memantine: updating a rare success story in pro-cognitive therapeutics

PK Tari, CG Parsons, GL Collingridge, G Rammes - Neuropharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
The great potential for NMDA receptor modulators as druggable targets in
neurodegenerative disorders has been met with limited success. Considered one of the rare …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic memantine treatment ameliorates behavioral deficits, neuron loss, and impaired neurogenesis in a model of Alzheimer's disease

M Stazi, O Wirths - Molecular neurobiology, 2021 - Springer
Memantine, a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist possessing neuroprotective
properties, belongs to the small group of drugs which have been approved for the treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Are some animal models more equal than others? A case study on the translational value of animal models of efficacy for Alzheimer's disease

DH Veening-Griffioen, GS Ferreira… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Clinical trial failures (> 99%) in Alzheimer's disease are in stark contrast to positive
efficacy data in animals. We evaluated the correlation between animal and clinical efficacy …

Pathogenesis of sporadic Alzheimer's disease by deficiency of NMDA receptor subunit GluN3A

W Zhong, A Wu, K Berglund, X Gu… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Ca2+ hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) conceives Ca2+
dyshomeostasis as a common mechanism of AD; the cause of Ca2+ dysregulation …

Challenges for the pharmacological treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders: Implications of the Ca2+/cAMP intracellular signalling interaction

LB Bergantin, A Caricati-Neto - European Journal of Pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
In 2013, we discovered that the entitled “calcium paradox” phenomenon, which means a
paradoxical sympathetic hyperactivity produced by l-type Ca 2+ channel blockers (CCBs) …

[HTML][HTML] Design, synthesis, and in vitro and in vivo characterization of new memantine analogs for Alzheimer's disease

AL Turcu, J Companys-Alemany, MB Phillips… - European journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, of the few accessible symptomatic therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD),
memantine is the only N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) blocker approved by the …

[HTML][HTML] Galantamine tethered hydrogel as a novel therapeutic target for streptozotocin-induced Alzheimer's disease in Wistar rats

M Rajkumar, M Sakthivel, K Senthilkumar… - Current Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque formation, neuronal cell death, and cognitive impairment are the
unique symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). No single step remedy is available to treat …

Green tea suppresses amyloid β levels and alleviates cognitive impairment by inhibiting APP cleavage and preventing neurotoxicity in 5XFAD mice

Z Kan, Y Wang, Q Chen, X Tang… - Molecular Nutrition & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Scope The consumption of green tea is considered to be associated with a lower incidence
of neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, it is investigated the role of amyloid …