Recent advances in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms, clinical trials and new drug development strategies

J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Xia, J Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) stands as the predominant form of dementia, presenting significant
and escalating global challenges. Its etiology is intricate and diverse, stemming from a …

Tauopathies: new perspectives and challenges

Y Zhang, KM Wu, L Yang, Q Dong, JT Yu - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Background Tauopathies are a class of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by
neuronal and/or glial tau-positive inclusions. Main body Clinically, tauopathies can present …

Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: Targeting β-amyloid and beyond

C Song, J Shi, P Zhang, Y Zhang, J Xu, L Zhao… - Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the elderly
worldwide. However, the complexity of AD pathogenesis leads to discrepancies in the …

Cellular and pathological functions of tau

C Parra Bravo, SA Naguib, L Gan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Tau protein is involved in various cellular processes, including having a canonical role in
binding and stabilization of microtubules in neurons. Tauopathies are neurodegenerative …

Tau-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease: current status and future directions

EE Congdon, C Ji, AM Tetlow, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in older individuals. AD is
characterized pathologically by amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the …

Tau and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease: Interplay mechanisms and clinical translation

Y Chen, Y Yu - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) contributes to most cases of dementia. Its prominent
neuropathological features are the extracellular neuritic plaques and intercellular …

Accelerating Alzheimer's therapeutic development: the past and future of clinical trials

AL Boxer, R Sperling - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) research has entered a new era with the recent positive phase 3
clinical trials of the anti-Aβ antibodies lecanemab and donanemab. Why did it take 30 years …

Aducanumab therapy to treat Alzheimer's disease: a narrative review

SA Beshir, AM Aadithsoorya, A Parveen… - International Journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Aducanumab, a new monoclonal antibody that targets β‐amyloid aggregates,
has been granted conditional approval by the US FDA for treatment of mild Alzheimer's …

Multipronged diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer's disease

M Ramesh, T Govindaraju - Chemical science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and a major
contributor to dementia cases worldwide. AD is clinically characterized by learning, memory …

Does modulation of tau hyperphosphorylation represent a reasonable therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease? From preclinical studies to the clinical trials

N Basheer, T Smolek, I Hassan, F Liu, K Iqbal… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Protein kinases (PKs) have emerged as one of the most intensively investigated drug targets
in current pharmacological research, with indications ranging from oncology to …