Neurotrophins: from pathophysiology to treatment in Alzheimer's disease.

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) plays a crucial physiological role in termination of impulse transmission at cholinergic synapses through rapid hydrolysis of acetylcholine. In addition, it was implicated in amyloid plaque formation, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and most of the drugs used in AD treatment are ACh...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Hasin Y,Avidan N,Bercovich D,Korczyn AD,Silman I,Beckmann JS,Sussman JL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ACTION, a 24-week, prospective, randomized, parallel-group, double-blind study in patients with severe Alzheimer's disease (AD), demonstrated significant efficacy of 13.3 mg/24 h versus 4.6 mg/24 h rivastigmine patch on the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) and Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Grossberg GT,Farlow MR,Meng X,Velting DM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing basic science and clinical evidence implicates inflammatory processes and resulting glial activation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease. Excess TNF-alpha, a cytokine with pleotropic effects in the CNS, has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of AD. In addition to its pro-infl...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Tobinick E

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholinesterase inhibitors are the first line of therapy for the management of Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, it is now established that they provide only temporary and symptomatic relief, besides, having several inherited side-effects. Therefore, an alternative drug discovery method is used to identify n...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Kumar A,Mehta V,Raj U,Varadwaj PK,Udayabanu M,Yennamalli RM,Singh TR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Twentieth Century witnessed tremendous advances in our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. Not least among them were the contributions from hyperendemic foci of neurodegenerative disorders in isolated human groups worldwide, with the knowledge gained applicable to our understanding of related neurodegener...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Garruto RM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definite diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is based on the detection of beta amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) - which are the pathological hallmarks of the disease- in the postmortem brains. Although regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF) and Cerebral Glucose Metabolism (CGM) abnormalities ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Valotassiou V,Archimandritis S,Sifakis N,Papatriantafyllou J,Georgoulias P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have identified the correlation between dementia and certain vocal features, such as voice and speech changes. Vocal features may act as early markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite being present in non-pathological senescence and Mild Cognitive Impairment, especially in its amnesic subt...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Meilan JJG,Martinez-Sanchez F,Carro J,Carcavilla N,Ivanova O

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Curcumin has been of interest in the field of Alzheimer's disease. Early studies on transgenic mice showed promising results in the reduction of amyloid plaques.However, curcumin is very poorly soluble in aqueous solutions and not easily accessible to coupling as it contains only phenolic groups as potential...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Sturzu A,Sheikh S,Kalbacher H,Nägele T,Weidenmaier C,Wegenast-Braun BM,Schilling N,Ernemann U,Heckl S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present a fully automatic computer-aided diagnosis method for the early diagnosis of the Alzheimer's disease. We study the distance between classes (labelled as normal controls and possible Alzheimer's disease) calculated in 116 regions of the brain using the Welchs's t-test. We select the regions wit...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Salas-Gonzalez D,Segovia F,Martínez-Murcia FJ,Lang EW,Gorriz JM,Ramırez J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, several radiolabeled compounds have been developed for the imaging in vivo of amyloid pathology by means of Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Among these, 18F Florbetaben appear to be one of the most reliable for its high affinity for amyloid plaques in brain and its radio-chemical properties tha...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Chiaravalloti A,Danieli R,Lacanfora A,Palumbo B,Caltagirone C,Schillaci O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the known validity of clinical diagnostic criteria, significant overlap of clinical symptoms between Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) subtypes exists in several cases, resulting in great uncertainty of the diagnostic boundaries. We evaluated the perfusion between FTD subtypes using brain perfusion (99m)Tc-HMPAO S...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Valotassiou V,Papatriantafyllou J,Sifakis N,Tzavara C,Tsougos I,Psimadas D,Kapsalaki E,Fezoulidis I,Hadjigeorgiou G,Georgoulias P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) is highly expressed throughout the forebrain and hippocampus. Several lines of evidence support the role of this receptor in brain development and developmental disorders, as well as in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the present study, the expre...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Iyer AM,van Scheppingen J,Milenkovic I,Anink JJ,Lim D,Genazzani AA,Adle-Biassette H,Kovacs GG,Aronica E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of cholesterol have been proposed as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Polymorphism of genes encoding proteins that regulate cholesterol metabolism have also been associated with the frequency of Alzheimer's development. Some studies have shown that cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce the frequency...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Vestergaard M,Hamada T,Morita M,Takagi M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol-induced production of amyloid beta (Abeta) as a putative neurotoxin in Alzheimer's disease (AD), along with epidemiological evidence, suggests that statin drugs may provide benefit in treatment of the disorder. We tested the effect of once daily atorvastatin calcium (80 mg; two 40 mg tablets) on cognitive ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Sparks DL,Sabbagh MN,Connor DJ,Lopez J,Launer LJ,Petanceska S,Browne P,Wassar D,Johnson-Traver S,Lochhead J,Ziolkowski C

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that alterations in astrocytes occur in Alzheimer's disease and reactive astrogliosis is one of the hallmarks of the disease. Recently, data has emerged that suggests that alterations in astrocytes may also occur early in the pathogenesis of the disease. OBJECTIVE:The aim of present work wa...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Ruffinatti F,Tapella L,Gregnanin I,Stevano A,Chiorino G,Canonico PL,Distasi C,Genazzani AA,Lim D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by mental and cognitive problems, particularly with memory, language, visuospatial skills (VS), and executive functions (EF). Advances in the neuroimaging of AD have highlighted dysfunctions in functional connectivity networks (FCNs), especially in the memory related default m...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Weiler M,Fukuda A,Massabki LH,Lopes TM,Franco AR,Damasceno BP,Cendes F,Balthazar ML

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis of Alzheimer`s disease (AD) is currently difficult and involves a complex approach including clinical assessment, neuroimaging, and measurement of amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). A better mechanistic understanding is needed to develop more accurate and even presymptomatic di...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Skachokova Z,Sprenger F,Breu K,Abramowski D,Clavaguera F,Hench J,Staufenbiel M,Tolnay M,Winkler DT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently the most prominent form of dementia among the elderly. Although AD manifests in late adult life, it is not clear when the disease actually starts and how long the neuropathological processes take to develop AD. The major unresolved question is the timing and the nature of triggeri...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Lahiri DK,Maloney B,Basha MR,Ge YW,Zawia NH

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of autoimmunity have been associated with both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and with diabetes. In both diseases high levels of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their receptor (RAGE) have been detected in tissues and in the circulation. In addition high titers of antibodies directed against a RAGE-like p...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Mruthinti S,Schade RF,Harrell DU,Gulati NK,Swamy-Mruthinti S,Lee GP,Buccafusco JJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are yet to be fully elucidated. The so-called "amyloid cascade hypothesis" has long been the prevailing paradigm for causation of disease, and is today being revisited in relation to other pathogenic pathways, such as oxidative stress, neuroinflamm...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： D'Orio B,Fracassi A,Ceru MP,Moreno S

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) starts as individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) transition to Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia. However, most IADL scales have not shown IADL alterations in clinically normal (CN) elderly. The objective of this study was to det...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Marshall GA,Zoller AS,Kelly KE,Amariglio RE,Locascio JJ,Johnson KA,Sperling RA,Rentz DM,For The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, the most reliable diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the post mortem identification of amyloid plaques, consisting of the Amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide, (and neurofibrillary tangles) in the brain of the patient. Great efforts are being made to identify reliable biomarkers for AD that are suitable for mini...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Funke SA,Birkmann E,Willbold D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of aging and dementia research is advancing rapidly toward the stage of earlier identification of clinical symptoms. Ultimately, clinicians would like to be able to identify individuals who are asymptomatic but at risk for developing dementia. In the interim, the construct of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Petersen RC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the resources needed by clinical pharmacology to test drugs in ways that model how the practitioner achieves optimal effectiveness and safety with each patient? I describe the applications of test-retest standard error of measurement, clinical decision rules, means or other statistical summaries of observatio...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Becker RE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory loss is a prominent health concern, second only to heart disease for older individuals. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the principle omega-3 fatty acid in brain and heart, plays an important role in neural and cardiac function. Decreases in plasma DHA are associated with cognitive decline in healthy elderly and Al...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Yurko-Mauro K

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently available experimental data supports the hypothesis that the neuroprotective effect of dimebon is related to the protection of the brain-mitochondria from neurodegeneration. In this study, the influence of dimebon on mitochondria was investigated to gain a better understanding of the neuroprotective effe...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Shevtsova EF,Vinogradova DV,Kireeva EG,Reddy VP,Aliev G,Bachurin SO

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 40 homolog (TOMM40) contains a polymorphic poly-T variant, the long variant of which is associated with an increase in AD incidence among APOE 3 carriers. Current methods to isotype the poly-T region rely on long PCR, subcloning and sequenc...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Greco SJ,Hamzelou A,Johnston JM,Richardson S,Smith MA,Perry G,Ashford JW,Tezapsidis N

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale (ADAS-cog) is the most widely used cognitive outcome measure in AD trials. Although errors in administration and scoring have been suggested as factors masking accurate estimates and potential effects of treatments, there have been few formal exam...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Schafer K,De Santi S,Schneider LS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), 42-residue peptide and its variations, is known to form amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease. Solid-state NMR study reveals a parallel beta-sheet structure in the Abeta fibrils. The atomic level structure of Abeta in aqueous environment, however, has not been determined, because of its ...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Takano K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common types of dementia in the presenile population. Episodic memory impairment, the clinical hallmark of AD, can also be encountered in patients with FTD, complicating accurate diagnosis. Several studies in FTD have correlated memory deficits wi...

journal_title：Current Alzheimer research

authors： Papma JM,Seelaar H,de Koning I,Hasan D,Reijs A,Valkema R,Prins ND,van Swieten JC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00