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Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

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  1. Repurposing Metformin for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: Current Insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Vascular health and risk management 2024-06-21 Drug development

    Metformin is an orally effective anti-hyperglycemic drug that despite being introduced over 60 years ago is still utilized by an estimated 120 to 150 million people worldwide for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D).

  2. Sulfopropanoic acid derivatives for treating neurodegenerative disorders: a patent spotlight

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Pharmaceutical patent analyst 2024-06-20 Clinical trials

    The patent introduces a class of agents that target amyloid aggregation, and subsequently, reduce amyloid β-oligomer neurotoxicity.

  3. Donanemab, another anti-Alzheimer's drug with risk and uncertain benefit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2024-06-01 Treatments

    Based on "reducing amyloid plaques in the brain", the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated and full approval for two monoclonal anti-Alzheimer's antibodies, aducanumab and lecanemab, respectively.

  4. Aducanumab: A look two years after its approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud 2024-05-31 Treatments

    Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia worldwide and a critical public health problem.

  5. Drug repurposing for neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Progress in molecular biology and translational science 2024-05-22 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are neuronal problems that include the brain and spinal cord and result in loss of sensory and motor dysfunction.

  6. Pharmacokinetic evaluation of donanemab for the treatment of Alzheimer's

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology 2024-05-20 Treatments

    Donanemab is a humanized monoclonal antibody that significantly reduces cerebral amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  7. Dual Drug Repurposing: The Example of Saracatinib

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-04-22 Drug development

    Saracatinib (AZD0530) is a dual Src/Abl inhibitor initially developed by AstraZeneca for cancer treatment; however, data from 2006 to 2024 reveal that this drug has been tested not only for cancer treatment, but also for the treatment of other diseases.

  8. A Review of Recent Advances in the Management of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cureus 2024-04-16 Drug development

    The antidiabetic drugs include NE3107, an anti-inflammatory and insulin sensitizer, and the diabetes mainstream drug metformin.

  9. Antiarrhythmic effects of metformin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Heart rhythm O2 2024-04-11 Drug development

    Atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) is a major public health problem and is associated with stroke, heart failure, dementia, and death.

  10. Alzheimer's Amyloid Hypothesis and Antibody Therapy: Melting Glaciers?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2024-03-31 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease is still alive, although heavily challenged.

  11. CVOT Summit Report 2023: new cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic outcomes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Cardiovascular diabetology 2024-03-19 Drug development

    The 9th Cardiovascular Outcome Trial (CVOT) Summit: Congress on Cardiovascular, Kidney, and Metabolic Outcomes was held virtually on November 30-December 1, 2023.

  12. Anti-amyloid Antibody Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2024-02-20 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, which is characterized by a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is extremely difficult to treat and severely reduces quality of life.

  13. Pharmacological Approaches Using Diabetic Drugs Repurposed for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biomedicines 2024-01-03 Drug development

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are chronic, progressive disorders affecting the elderly, which fosters global healthcare concern with the growing aging population.

  14. Incretin Mimetics as Potential Disease Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition that exerts a significant global burden.

  15. Transdermal Therapeutic Systems for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Patent Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2024 Treatments

    TTSs present some limit factors in terms of absorption due to skin physiology and the size of the molecules with established limits of percutaneous penetration (molecular mass of 500 g/mol and log P of 5).

  16. Drug Repositioning: A Monetary Stratagem to Discover a New Application of Drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Current drug discovery technologies 2024 Drug development

    Drug repurposing, also referred to as drug repositioning or drug reprofiling, is a scientific approach to the detection of any new application for an already approved or investigational drug.

  17. [Mechanism of action and clinical trial results of Lecanemab (Leqembi® 200 ‍mg, 500 ‍mg for Intravenous Infusion), a novel treatment for Alzheimer's disease]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nihon yakurigaku zasshi. Folia pharmacologica Japonica 2024 Clinical trials

    Lecanemab is a humanized monoclonal antibody directed against human soluble amyloid-β aggregates.

  18. Lecanemab: More Questions Than Answers!

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical drug investigation 2023-12-14 Treatments

    The approval of lecanemab by the US Food and Drug Administration has been touted as a defining moment in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy: shared neuropathology guides current and future treatment strategies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2023-10-23 Treatments

    Epilepsy is a cause of profound disability in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. Orexin Receptor Antagonism: Normalizing Sleep Architecture in Old Age and Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology 2023-09-14 Risk factors

    Sleep is essential for human well-being, yet the quality and quantity of sleep reduce as age advances.

  21. Antiamyloid Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Alzheimer Disease: Emerging Issues in Neurology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2023-07-26 Treatments

    With recent data demonstrating that lecanemab treatment can slow cognitive and functional decline in early symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD), it is widely anticipated that this drug and potentially other monoclonal antibody infusions targeting β-amyloid protein will imminently be realistic options for some patients with AD.

  22. Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapies for Alzheimer's Disease: A 2023 Clinical Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2023-07-25 Treatments

    The amyloid cascade hypothesis is a useful framework for therapeutic development in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  23. Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibodies are Transformative Treatments that Redefine Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Drugs 2023-04-15 Treatments

    Two anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (MABs)-lecanemab (Leqembi ® ) and aducanumab (Aduhelm ® )-have been approved in the USA for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Assessing preparedness for Alzheimer disease‐modifying therapies in Australasian health care systems

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Medical Journal of Australia 2023-03-19 Treatments

    Three deaths have been reported related to treatment with lecanemab.6 Patients receiving DMT require frequent monitoring with MRI brain scans (four or more per year), as there is a high rate of clinically significant amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA), both brain oedema (ARIA-E) and macro- and microhaemorrhages (ARIA-H).

  25. Anti-amyloid antibody therapies in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2023-03-01 Treatments

    After years of failed attempts to develop a disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer's disease, consistent evidence in support of clinical efficacy was finally presented for a monoclonal antibody targeting the amyloid-β protofibrils.

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