Emerging diagnostics and therapeutics for Alzheimer disease

WK Self, DM Holtzman - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common contributor to dementia in the world, but
strategies that slow or prevent its clinical progression have largely remained elusive, until …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Alzheimer's disease: novel targets and investigational drugs for disease modification

JL Cummings, AML Osse, JW Kinney - Drugs, 2023 - Springer
Novel agents addressing non-amyloid, non-tau targets in Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
comprise 70% of the AD drug development pipeline of agents currently in clinical trials. Most …

Nucleic acid therapeutics: successes, milestones, and upcoming innovation

J Belgrad, HH Fakih, A Khvorova - nucleic acid therapeutics, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Nucleic acid-based therapies have become the third major drug class after small molecules
and antibodies. The role of nucleic acid-based therapies has been strengthened by recent …

P-tau217 correlates with neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, and targeting p-tau217 with immunotherapy ameliorates murine tauopathy

D Zhang, W Zhang, C Ming, X Gao, H Yuan, X Lin… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Neuronal loss is the central issue in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet no treatment developed
so far can halt AD-associated neurodegeneration. Here, we developed a monoclonal …

[HTML][HTML] Passive immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

X Guo, L Yan, D Zhang, Y Zhao - Ageing Research Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease characterized by
cognitive impairment with few therapeutic options. Despite many failures in develo** AD …

Exploratory tau biomarker results from a multiple ascending-dose study of BIIB080 in Alzheimer disease: a randomized clinical trial

AL Edwards, JA Collins, C Junge… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Accumulation of hyperphosphorylated, tangled microtubule-associated protein
tau (MAPT) is a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD) associated with disease …

p75 neurotrophin receptor modulation in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2a trial

HRC Shanks, K Chen, EM Reiman, K Blennow… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) signaling pathways substantially overlap with
degenerative networks active in Alzheimer disease (AD). Modulation of p75NTR with the first …