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  1. Integrated Transcriptomic and Structural Prioritization of Sulforaphane Targets in Neurodegeneration: A Multi-Dataset In Silico Study 2026-10-25
  2. Natural Sesquiterpenoids from Laggera pterodonta as bioactive Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors: Insights from DFT, Molecular Docking, and ADMET Profiling 2026-10-20
  3. DNA-Encoded Library-Guided Discovery of a First-in-Class Molecular Glue of the NOS1AP-SCRIB Complex in Alzheimer’s Disease Patient-Derived Neurons 2026-10-18

Studies

234 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1977 to 2026

Top journals

  • Research Square 9
  • Journal of medicinal chemistry 7
  • International journal of molecular sciences 6
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 6
  • Nature reviews. Drug discovery 6

154 journals in all.

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  1. Drug Delivery Systems as a Strategy to Improve the Efficacy of FDA-Approved Alzheimer's Drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pharmaceutics 2022-10-26 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with a high impact worldwide, accounting for more than 46 million cases.

  2. Therapeutic drug repositioning with special emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases: Threats and issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in pharmacology 2022-10-03 Drug development

    Drug repositioning or repurposing is the process of discovering leading-edge indications for authorized or declined/abandoned molecules for use in different diseases.

  3. Comparative study of rivastigmine and galantamine on the transgenic Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery 2022-07-31 Treatments

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is characterized as a progressive neurodegenerative disease most commonly associated with memory deficits and cognitive decline.

  4. Reimagining cholinergic therapy for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2022-07-01 Treatments

    Currently, enhancement of cholinergic neurotransmission via cholinesterase inhibitors represents the main available approach to treat cognitive and behavioural symptoms of the early as well as late stages of Alzheimer's disease.

  5. Network-based stage-specific drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Computational and structural biotechnology journal 2022-03-16 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and the most common type of dementia.

  6. A Review of the Common Neurodegenerative Disorders: Current Therapeutic Approaches and the Potential Role of Nanotherapeutics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-02-06 Vascular contributions

    Neurodegenerative disorders are primarily characterized by neuron loss.

  7. Amelioration of Alzheimer's disease pathology by mitophagy inducers identified via machine learning and a cross-species workflow

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature biomedical engineering 2022-01-06 Digital health tools

    A reduced removal of dysfunctional mitochondria is common to aging and age-related neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  8. Acetylcholinesterase Enzyme Inhibitor Molecules with Therapeutic Potential for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2022 Treatments

    Acetylcholinesterase (AchE), hydrolase enzyme, regulates the hydrolysis of acetylcholine neurotransmitter in the neurons.

  9. Fosgonimeton and placebo were shown to be safe and well-tolerated across all doses.

  10. Clinical advances of RNA therapeutics for treatment of neurological and neuromuscular diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. RNA biology 2021-12-31 Drug development

    RNA therapeutics comprise a diverse group of oligonucleotide-based drugs such as antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) that can be designed to selectively interact with drug targets currently undruggable with small molecule-based drugs or monoclonal antibodies.

  11. Drug repurposing: small molecules against Cu(II)-amyloid-β and free radicals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of inorganic biochemistry 2021-08-27 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a complex pathology entangling numerous pathological factors, including amyloid-β (Aβ), metal ions, and reactive oxygen species (ROS).

  12. Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease: An Updated Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2021-07-30 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and accounts for most cases of dementia.

  13. Recent advances on drug development and emerging therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Molecular biology reports 2021-06-28 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative old age disease that is complex, multifactorial, unalterable, and progressive in nature.

  14. Role of liraglutide in Alzheimer's disease pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-06-12 Drug development

    The effects of LRGT on animal models show significant benefits in AD pathology and cognitive impairment.

  15. Potential therapeutic natural products against Alzheimer's disease with Reference of Acetylcholinesterase

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2021-05-04 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), is the most common type of dementia primarily affecting the later years of life.

  16. Fluorescent Determination of Butyrylcholinesterase Activity and Its Application in Biological Imaging and Pesticide Residue Detection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. ACS Sensors 2021-01-27 Risk factors

    Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is an essential human cholinesterase relevant to liver conditions and neurodegenerative diseases, which makes it a pivotal biomarker of health.

  17. Red-to-blue paper-based colorimetric sensor integrated with smartphone for point-of-use analysis of cerebral AChE upon Cd2+ exposure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Nanoscale 2021-01-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Herein, combined with a pervasive smartphone installed with a color recognition app, dual-responsive CDs@Eu/GMP ICPs were designed as a red-to-blue paper-based colorimetric sensor for the point-of-use analysis of cerebral acetylcholinesterase (AChE) upon Cd2+ exposure.

  18. Therapeutic Potential of Multifunctional Derivatives of Cholinesterase Inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neuropharmacology 2021 Treatments

    The aim of this work is to review tacrine analogues from the last three years, which were not included in the latest review work, donepezil and galantamine hybrids from 2015 and rivastigmine derivatives from 2014.

  19. 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.

  20. Efficacy of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2020-10-06 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of adult-onset dementia is characterized by a progressive decline of cognitive functions accompanied by behavioral manifestations.

  21. A phase II randomized trial of sodium oligomannate in Alzheimer's dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2020-09-14 Clinical trials

    Comparing with the placebo group (n = 83, change - 1.45), the ADAS-cog12 score change in the GV-971 600-mg group (n = 76) was - 1.39 (p = 0.89) and the GV-971 900-mg group (n = 83) was - 2.58 (p = 0.30).

  22. Marine Natural Products, Multitarget Therapy and Repurposed Agents in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-09-11 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease characterized by the presence of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and nerve cell death that affects, mainly, older people.

  23. Galantamine-Memantine combination in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2020-08-18 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia in the elderly population worldwide.

  24. Pharmacogenetic considerations when prescribing cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology 2020-06-23 Treatments

    Cholinergic dysfunction, demonstrated in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led to the introduction of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) in 1993 (Tacrine) to enhance cholinergic neurotransmission as the first line of treatment against Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Current and Future Treatments in Alzheimer Disease: An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of central nervous system disease 2020-02-29 Treatments

    Disease-modifying treatment strategies for Alzheimer disease (AD) are still under extensive research.

  26. Alzheimer's disease: targeting the glutamatergic system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biogerontology 2020-02-11 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that causes a progressive decline in memory, language and problem solving.

  27. Natural and synthetic drugs used for the treatment of the dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2020-02-07 Treatments

    This review is devoted to comparative pharmacological analysis of synthetic drugs such as memantine and its isomers, as well as tacrine, velnacrine, rivastigmine, and donepezil, with natural alkaloids, terpenoids, and triterpenoid peroxides, which are used to treat dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, myasthenia gravis and other neurodegenerative diseases.

  28. Cholinesterase as a Target for Drug Development in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an enormous healthcare challenge, and 50 million people are currently suffering from it.

  29. Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems and their Potential in Alzheimer's Disease Management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. CNS & neurological disorders drug targets 2020 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease is a neuropathological disease with symptoms such as language problems, confusion as to place or time, loss of interest in activities, which were previously enjoyed, behavioral changes, and memory loss.

  30. Cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: clinical management and prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019-12-06 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the accumulation of amyloid β in the form of extracellular plaques and by intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, with eventual neurodegeneration and dementia.

  31. Insights into Computational Drug Repurposing for Neurodegenerative Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Trends in pharmacological sciences 2019-07-17 Drug development

    Computational drug repurposing has the ability to remarkably reduce drug development time and cost in an era where these factors are prohibitively high.

  32. Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Annual review of neuroscience 2019-07-01 Drug development

    Antisense oligonucleotides represent a novel therapeutic platform for the discovery of medicines that have the potential to treat most neurodegenerative diseases.

  33. Cholinesterase Inhibitors for Alzheimer's Disease: Multitargeting Strategy Based on Anti-Alzheimer's Drugs Repositioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current pharmaceutical design 2019 Treatments

    In the brain, acetylcholine (ACh) is regarded as one of the major neurotransmitters.

  34. 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.

  35. The exploration of novel Alzheimer's therapeutic agents from the pool of FDA approved medicines using drug repositioning, enzyme inhibition and kinetic mechanism approaches

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2018-12-03 Drug development

    Novel drug development is onerous, time consuming and overpriced process with particularly low success and relatively high enfeebling rates.

  36. 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.

  37. A molecular approach in drug development for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie 2018-07-11 Treatments

    An increase in dementia numbers and global trends in population aging across the world prompts the need for new medications to treat the complex biological dysfunctions, such as neurodegeneration associated with dementia.

  38. 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.

  39. Drug development for Alzheimer's disease: review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of drug targeting 2018-06-20 Drug development

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, which is considered as one of the most intractable medical problems with heavy social and economic costs.

  40. Benzofuran and Indole: Promising Scaffolds for Drug Development in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. ChemMedChem 2018-06-19 Treatments

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with no clinically accepted treatment to cure or halt its progression.

  41. Nose-to-brain drug delivery: An update on clinical challenges and progress towards approval of anti-Alzheimer drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2018-05-24 Treatments

    However, there is also some limitation associated with IN like poor drug permeation through the nasal mucosa and mucociliary clearance.

  42. 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.

  43. Mechanism of NMDA receptor channel block by MK-801 and memantine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nature 2018-04-18 Treatments

    The NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor transduces the binding of glutamate and glycine, coupling it to the opening of a calcium-permeable ion channel 1 .

  44. Memantine loaded PLGA PEGylated nanoparticles for Alzheimer’s disease: in vitro and in vivo characterization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2018-03-27 Treatments

    The production parameters were optimized by design of experiments.

  45. Positively Charged Polyprodrug Amphiphiles with Enhanced Drug Loading and Reactive Oxygen Species-Responsive Release Ability for Traceable Synergistic Therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018-03-07 Drug development

    Due to the vast differences in chemical properties among small molecule drugs, nucleotide drugs, and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocubes (SPIONs), such as charge and hydrophobicity, entrapment of these within a single carrier for traceable synergistic therapy has been proven difficult.

  46. Targeting Early Dementia: Using Lipid Cubic Phase Nanocarriers to Cross the Blood⁻Brain Barrier

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) 2018-03-07 Vascular contributions

    Over the past decades, a frequent co-morbidity of cerebrovascular pathology and Alzheimer's disease has been observed.

  47. Therapeutic role of rifampicin in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2018-02-10 Drug development

    Rifampicin exerts significant brain protective functions in multiple experimental models.

  48. Memantine for the Treatment of Dementia: A Review on its Current and Future Applications

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

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence in the brain of extracellular amyloid-β protein (Aβ) and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

  49. iPSC-Based Compound Screening and In Vitro Trials Identify a Synergistic Anti-amyloid β Combination for Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Cell reports 2017-11-01 Treatments

    In the process of drug development, in vitro studies do not always adequately predict human-specific drug responsiveness in clinical trials.

  50. Trends in GPCR drug discovery: new agents, targets and indications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Nature reviews. Drug discovery 2017-10-27 Risk factors

    G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the most intensively studied drug targets, mostly due to their substantial involvement in human pathophysiology and their pharmacological tractability.

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