Development of multifunctional molecules as potential therapeutic candidates for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the …

MG Savelieff, G Nam, J Kang, HJ Lee, M Lee… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Neurodegenerative diseases pose a substantial socioeconomic burden on society.
Unfortunately, the aging world population and lack of effective cures foreshadow a negative …

Towards an understanding of amyloid-β oligomers: characterization, toxicity mechanisms, and inhibitors

SJC Lee, E Nam, HJ Lee, MG Savelieff… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by an imbalance between production and
clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) species. Aβ peptides can transform structurally from monomers …

[HTML][HTML] Visualizing and trapping transient oligomers in amyloid assembly pathways

EE Cawood, TK Karamanos, AJ Wilson… - Biophysical chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Oligomers which form during amyloid fibril assembly are considered to be key contributors
towards amyloid disease. However, understanding how such intermediates form, their …

Function and toxicity of amyloid beta and recent therapeutic interventions targeting amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease

K Rajasekhar, M Chakrabarti… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloidogenesis has been implicated in a broad spectrum of diseases in which amyloid
protein is invariably misfolded and deposited in cells and organs. Alzheimer's disease is one …

Neurotoxicity linked to dysfunctional metal ion homeostasis and xenobiotic metal exposure: redox signaling and oxidative stress

C Garza-Lombó, Y Posadas, L Quintanar… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Essential metals such as copper, iron, manganese, and zinc play a role as
cofactors in the activity of a wide range of processes involved in cellular homeostasis and …

Amphiphilic distyrylbenzene derivatives as potential therapeutic and imaging agents for soluble and insoluble amyloid β aggregates in Alzheimer's disease

L Sun, HJ Cho, S Sen, AS Arango… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, and efficient
therapeutic and early diagnostic agents for AD are still lacking. Herein, we report the …

Regulation of copper and iron homeostasis by metal chelators: A possible chemotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

A Robert, Y Liu, M Nguyen… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus With the increase of life expectancy of humans in more than two-thirds of the
countries in the World, aging diseases are becoming the frontline health problems …

Mechanistic insight into the design of chemical tools to control multiple pathogenic features in Alzheimer's disease

J Han, Z Du, MH Lim - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is
characterized by memory loss and cognitive decline. Approximately 50 million people …

Alzheimer's disease: How metal ions define β-amyloid function

KP Kepp - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease is increasingly recognized to be linked to the function and status of
metal ions, and recently, the amyloid hypothesis has been strongly intertwined with the …

Copper-targeting approaches in Alzheimer's disease: how to improve the fallouts obtained from in vitro studies

C Esmieu, D Guettas, A Conte-Daban… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, metal ions, mainly Cu and Zn ions, bound to
the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides are implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), a widespread …