Alzheimer's disease: clinical trials and drug development

F Mangialasche, A Solomon, B Winblad… - The Lancet …, 2010 - thelancet.com
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in elderly people. Research into
Alzheimer's disease therapy has been at least partly successful in terms of developing …

Multi-target-directed ligands to combat neurodegenerative diseases

A Cavalli, ML Bolognesi, A Minarini… - Journal of medicinal …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Our understanding of the pathogenesis of diseases has advanced enormously in recent
decades. As a consequence, drug discovery has gradually shifted from an entirely …

Polyphenols: multipotent therapeutic agents in neurodegenerative diseases

KS Bhullar, HPV Rupasinghe - Oxidative medicine and cellular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aging leads to numerous transitions in brain physiology including synaptic dysfunction and
disturbances in cognition and memory. With a few clinically relevant drugs, a substantial …

Recent advances in the multitarget‐directed ligands approach for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

R Leon, AG Garcia… - Medicinal research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
With 27 million cases worldwide documented in 2006, Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitutes
an overwhelming health, social, economic, and political problem to nations. Unless a new …

Quercetin and rutin exhibit antiamyloidogenic and fibril-disaggregating effects in vitro and potent antioxidant activity in APPswe cells

K Jiménez-Aliaga, P Bermejo-Bescós, J Benedí… - Life sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
AIMS: Quercetin and rutin have been reported to exert numerous pharmacological activities,
such as free-radical scavenging, effects on immune and inflammatory cell functions, and …

Flavonols and flavones as BACE-1 inhibitors: Structure–activity relationship in cell-free, cell-based and in silico studies reveal novel pharmacophore features

Y Shimmyo, T Kihara, A Akaike, T Niidome… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2008 - Elsevier
Generation and accumulation of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ) following proteolytic processing
of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by BACE-1 (Beta-site APP Cleaving Enzyme-1, β …

The entrancing role of dietary polyphenols against the most frequent aging‐associated diseases

MA Shah, HI Faheem, A Hamid… - Medicinal Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aging, a fundamental physiological process influenced by innumerable biological and
genetic pathways, is an important driving factor for several aging‐associated disorders like …

Rutin as a natural therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Insights into its mechanisms of action

S Habtemariam - Current medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Rutin (quercetin-3-O-rutinoside) is a multifunctional natural flavonoid glycoside with
profound effects on the various cellular functions under pathological conditions. Due to the …

Drug development for Alzheimer's disease: where are we now and where are we headed?

MN Sabbagh - The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy, 2009 - Elsevier
Objective: The aim of this article was to provide a survey of the clinical development of
pharmacotherapy for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods: A search of PubMed to identify …

Targeting monoamine oxidases with multipotent ligands: an emerging strategy in the search of new drugs against neurodegenerative diseases

L Pisani, M Catto, F Leonetti, O Nicolotti… - Current medicinal …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
The socioeconomic burden of multi-factorial pathologies, such as neurodegenerative
diseases (NDs), is enormous worldwide. Unfortunately, no proven disease-modifying …