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Emerging Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease: An Avenue of Hope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Steven C. Samuels  and
Hillel Grossman
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Abstract

Emerging therapies for Alzheimer's disease offer hope to patients and their caregivers. Future treatments will probably include combination approaches with agents that modify amyloid processing, deposition, and clearance. One example, the AD vaccine, reduced amyloid burden and changed behavior in animal models of AD, but the human trial was halted when several subjects developed brain inflammation. Anti-inflammatory agents have epidemiologic support, but clinical trials have been disappointing, possibly related to inadequate study with anti-inflammatory agents that modify amyloid processing. Agents that target known cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and insulin resistance, have epidemiologic, preclinical, and clinical evidence to warrant further investigation. Heavymetal chelators, antioxidants, neurotrophic factors, glutaminergic modulators, and agents that modify hyper-phosphorylation of Tau are other approaches in research and development.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 8 , Issue 11: Alzheimer's Disease in the 21st Century , November 2003 , pp. 834 - 845
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