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  1. Exercise as a prescription for patients with various diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of sport and health science 2019-04-18 Prevention trials

    A growing understanding of the benefits of exercise over the past few decades has prompted researchers to take an interest in the possibilities of exercise therapy.

  2. Revisiting the Cholinergic Hypothesis in Alzheimer's Disease: Emerging Evidence from Translational and Clinical Research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2019-01-01 Treatments

    Scientific evidence collected over the past 4 decades suggests that a loss of cholinergic innervation in the cerebral cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease is an early pathogenic event correlated with cognitive impairment.

  3. Naturally Occurring Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors and Their Potential Use for Alzheimer's Disease Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2018-10-18 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a main cause of dementia, accounting for up to 75% of all dementia cases.

  4. The cholinergic system in the pathophysiology and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-07-01 Disease mechanisms

    Cholinergic synapses are ubiquitous in the human central nervous system.

  5. Old Drugs as New Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 2018-05-11 Drug development

    Neurodegenerative diseases are increasing in number, given that the general global population is becoming older.

  6. New perspectives on the role of melatonin in human sleep, circadian rhythms and their regulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. British journal of pharmacology 2018-01-15 Clinical trials

    In mammals, a central circadian clock, located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus, tunes the innate circadian physiological rhythms to the ambient 24 h light-dark cycle to invigorate and optimize the internal temporal order.

  7. Clinical Evaluation of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities in Bapineuzumab Phase III Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Treatments

    Overall, ARIA-E was mild and asymptomatic.

  8. Alzheimer's drug-development pipeline: 2016

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2016-08-17 Clinical trials

    There are currently 24 agents in 36 trials in phase III of AD drug development.

  9. Comment on "ApoE-directed therapeutics rapidly clear β-amyloid and reverse deficits in AD mouse models"

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013-05-01 Treatments

    Cramer et al. (Reports, 23 March 2012, p. 1503; published online 9 February 2012) tested bexarotene as a potential β-amyloid-lowering drug for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  10. Association between polypharmacy and dementia in older people: a population-based case-control study in Taiwan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrics & gerontology international 2012-01-10 Digital health tools

    The risk of dementia increases steadily with the number of medications used and age in older people in Taiwan.

  11. Can we do better in developing new drugs for Alzheimer's disease?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2009-11 Treatments

    The past 30 years have seen multiple attempts at demonstrating the safety and efficacy of drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD), predominantly to improve symptoms.

  12. Long-term effects of the concomitant use of memantine with cholinesterase inhibition in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2009-02-09 Treatments

    This observational study revealed that the addition of the NMDA receptor antagonist memantine to the treatment of AD with ChEI significantly altered the treated history of AD by extending time to nursing home admission.

  13. Prevalence of cholinesterase inhibitors in subjects with dementia in Europe

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 2008-07 Treatments

    In 2004, estimated prevalence of ChI use among subjects with dementia ranged from 3.0% in the Netherlands to 20.3% in France.

  14. Antihypertensive medication use and incident Alzheimer disease: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-03-13 Drug development

    These data suggest that AH medications, and specifically potassium-sparing diuretics, are associated with reduced incidence of AD.

  15. Symptomatic effect of donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine and memantine on cognitive deficits in the APP23 model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychopharmacology 2005-01-15 Treatments

    All cholinesterase inhibitors reduced cognitive deficits with the following optimal daily doses: galantamine 1.25 mg kg(-1), rivastigmine 0.5 mg kg(-1) and donepezil 0.3 mg kg(-1).

  16. Low acetylcholine during slow-wave sleep is critical for declarative memory consolidation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004-02-06 Treatments

    The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is considered essential for proper functioning of the hippocampus-dependent declarative memory system, and it represents a major neuropharmacological target for the treatment of memory deficits, such as those in Alzheimer's disease.

  17. Data-Driven Modeling of Amyloid-beta Targeted Antibodies for Alzheimer’s Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. NPJ systems biology and applications 2025-04-03 Treatments

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is caused by the build-up of amyloid beta (A$\beta$) proteins in the brain, leading to memory loss and cognitive decline.

  18. Accelerating Alzheimer's therapeutic development: The past and future of clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Cell 2023-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) research has entered a new era with the recent positive phase 3 clinical trials of the anti-Aβ antibodies lecanemab and donanemab.

  19. Advances in amyloid-targeting monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer's disease: clinical and public health issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2023-07-01 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major global public health challenge.

  20. Antidiabetic agents as a novel treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Ageing research reviews 2023-06-14 Drug development

    Epidemiological evidence has revealed a link between AD/PD and type 2 diabetes mellitus, with these disorders sharing some pathological commonalities.

  21. Lecanemab: First Approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Drugs 2023-03-01 Treatments

    Lecanemab (lecanemab-irmb; LEQEMBI™) is a humanized immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) against aggregated soluble and insoluble forms of amyloid-β peptide.

  22. Aducanumab for Alzheimer's Disease: Summarized Data From EMERGE, ENGAGE, and PRIME Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Senior care pharmacist 2022-08-01 Treatments

    Based on the data to date, it is difficult to accurately assess the role of aducanumab in patients with MCI or mild AD.

  23. "Aducanumab" making a comeback in Alzheimer's disease: An old wine in a new bottle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2022-02-26 Treatments

    Despite presence of substantial evidence suggesting the pivotal role of amyloid (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), very few therapeutic agents have been able to ameliorate the disease.

  24. Aducanumab: First Approval

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Drugs 2021-08-01 Treatments

    Aducanumab (aducanumab-avwa; Aduhelm™) is a human, immunoglobulin gamma 1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody directed against aggregated soluble and insoluble forms of amyloid β.

  25. Discovery of a Potent Dual Inhibitor of Acetylcholinesterase and Butyrylcholinesterase with Antioxidant Activity that Alleviates Alzheimer-like Pathology in Old APP/PS1 Mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of medicinal chemistry 2020-12-28 Biomarkers

    The combination of the scaffolds of the cholinesterase inhibitor huprine Y and the antioxidant capsaicin results in compounds with nanomolar potencies toward human acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) that retain or improve the antioxidant properties of capsaicin.

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