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Disease-modifying therapies for tauopathies: agents in the pipeline
Panza F, Imbimbo BP, Lozupone M, Greco A, Seripa D, Logroscino G, Daniele A, Colosimo C.. Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2019-04-25
Topic: Brain proteins, microglia and lab models
Introduction Tauopathies are heterogeneous clinicopathological entities characterized by abnormal neuronal and/or glial inclusions of the microtubule-binding protein tau. Primary tauopathies considered to be diseases correspond to a major class of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) neuropathology (FTLD-Tau), including several forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) clinical syndromes. Little progress has been made in the past 20 years in developing effective disease-modifying drugs for primary tauopathies and available symptomatic treatments have limited efficacy. Areas covered: Potential disease-modifying drugs in clinical development to slow neuropathological progression of primary tauopathies. Expert opinion: Since the underlying pathology of primary tauopathies consists of abnormal tau protein aggregates, treatments are being developed to interfere with the aggregation process or to promote the clearance of this protein. Unfortunately, disease-modifying treatments remain years away as demonstrated by the recent negative Phase III findings of a tau aggregation inhibitor (LMTM) for treating the behavioral variant of FTD. Further evidence will come from ongoing Phase I/II trials on novel drugs and immunotherapeutics with various targets - prevention of deposition or removal of tau aggregates, inhibition of tau phosphorylation/acetylation, modulation of O-GlcNAcylation, activation of autophagy or ubiquitin-proteasome system pathways, and rescue of selected tau loss of function or suppression of tau gene expression.
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Panza, F., Imbimbo, B. P., Lozupone, M., Greco, A., Seripa, D., Logroscino, G., et al. (2019). Disease-modifying therapies for tauopathies: agents in the pipeline. Expert review of neurotherapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2019.1606715
Vancouver
Panza F, Imbimbo BP, Lozupone M, Greco A, Seripa D, Logroscino G, et al. Disease-modifying therapies for tauopathies: agents in the pipeline. Expert review of neurotherapeutics. 2019. doi:10.1080/14737175.2019.1606715. PMID: 30973276.
BibTeX
@article{panza2019-30973276,
author = {Panza, F. and Imbimbo, B. P. and Lozupone, M. and Greco, A. and Seripa, D. and Logroscino, G. and Daniele, A. and Colosimo, C.},
title = {{Disease-modifying therapies for tauopathies: agents in the pipeline}},
journal = {Expert review of neurotherapeutics},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.1080/14737175.2019.1606715},
pmid = {30973276},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2019.1606715}
}
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Key findings
- Unfortunately, disease-modifying treatments remain years away as demonstrated by the recent negative Phase III findings of a tau aggregation inhibitor (LMTM) for treating the behavioral variant of FTD.
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- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 38/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record and multi-centre collaboration, so those were left out: it earned 22 of the 58 points we could judge it on, which is 38 out of 100.
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| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Expert review of neurotherapeutics) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2019 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
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| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
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| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 30973276) |
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| Points | 22 / 58 | Scored on 11 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 22 of the 58 points we could judge it on is 38 out of 100. |
| Total | 38 / 100 | — |
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