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 …

Lest we forget you—methylene blue…

RH Schirmer, H Adler, M Pickhardt, E Mandelkow - Neurobiology of aging, 2011 - Elsevier
Methylene blue (MB), the first synthetic drug, has a 120-year-long history of diverse
applications, both in medical treatments and as a staining reagent. In recent years there was …

Advances in tau-focused drug discovery for Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies

KR Brunden, JQ Trojanowski, VMY Lee - Nature reviews Drug …, 2009 - nature.com
Neuronal inclusions comprised of the microtubule-associated protein tau are found in
numerous neurodegenerative diseases, commonly known as tauopathies. In Alzheimer's …

The role of tau in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

R Medeiros, D Baglietto‐Vargas… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tau, the microtubule‐associated protein, forms insoluble filaments that accumulate as
neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies. Under …

Secretion of tau via an unconventional non-vesicular mechanism

M Merezhko, CA Brunello, X Yan, H Vihinen, E Jokitalo… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Tauopathies are characterized by cerebral accumulation of Tau protein aggregates that
appear to spread throughout the brain via a cell-to-cell transmission process that includes …

Tauopathies: deciphering disease mechanisms to develop effective therapies

MC Silva, SJ Haggarty - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tauopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the pathological
accumulation of microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) in the form of neurofibrillary …

Tau‐Centric Targets and Drugs in Clinical Development for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

F Panza, V Solfrizzi, D Seripa… - BioMed research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The failure of several Phase II/III clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease (AD) with drugs
targeting β‐amyloid accumulation in the brain fuelled an increasing interest in alternative …

Inhibition of amyloid formation

T Härd, C Lendel - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Amyloid is aggregated protein in the form of insoluble fibrils. Amyloid deposition in human
tissue—amyloidosis—is associated with a number of diseases including all common …

Tau-induced defects in synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory are reversible in transgenic mice after switching off the toxic Tau mutant

A Sydow, A Van der Jeugd, F Zheng… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
This report describes the behavioral and electrophysiological analysis of regulatable
transgenic mice expressing mutant repeat domains of human Tau (TauRD). Mice were …

Sodium selenate mitigates tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and functional deficits in Alzheimer's disease models

J Van Eersel, YD Ke, X Liu, F Delerue… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains are characterized by amyloid-β-containing plaques and
hyperphosphorylated tau-containing neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs); however, in …