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ReviewNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2012

Alzheimer's therapeutics: translation of preclinical science to clinical drug development.

Alena V Savonenko, Tatiana Melnikova, Andrew Hiatt, Tong Li, Paul F Worley, Juan C Troncoso, Phil C Wong, Don L Price

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Review in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alena V SavonenkoDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. asavone1@jhmi.edu
Tatiana Melnikova
Andrew Hiatt
Tong Li
Paul F Worley
Juan C Troncoso
Phil C Wong
Don L Price

Funding

'T V ASSESSMENT - MEMORY DISORDERED PATIENTS'P50AG005146 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ALBERT, MARILYN S. · 1985 to 2019
$37.6M
Nicastrin: Physiological Role and Therapeutic Target ValidationP01NS047308 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PRICE, DONALD L · 2005 to 2009
$4.9M
Repair and Regeneration in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01NS047225 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI BORCHELT, DAVID R, SAVONENKO, ALENA · 2004 to 2012
$3.2M
Beta-amyloid Modulation: Role of BACE1/BACE2R01NS041438 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, PHILIP C · 2002 to 2010
$2.9M
Geriatric Depression: PET Studies of Pathophysiology and Treatment ResponseR01MH086881 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, GWENN S · 2010 to 2013
$2.7M
Nicastrin and Presenilin-dependent gamma-secretaseR01NS045150 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, PHILIP C · 2003 to 2007
$1.9M
TRANSGENIC MODELS OF FAMILIAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEP01AG014248 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SISODIA, SANGRAM S · 1997 to 2000
$1.0M
Conditional Uch-L1 knockout miceR21NS049088 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, MICHAEL K · 2004 to 2005
$378k
Scavenger Receptors Type-A of Microglia Promote Abeta Uptake After Abeta ImmunotR03TW008019 · FIC · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PRICE, DONALD L · 2010 to 2012
$115k
NON NEURONAL MECHANISMS CONTRIBUTING TO STROKE PATHOLOGYF32NS010580 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI ABBRUSCATO, THOMAS J · 1998 to 1999
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past three decades, significant progress has been made in understanding the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease. In recent years, the first attempts to implement novel mechanism-based treatments brought rather disappointing results, with low, if any, drug efficacy and significant side effects. A discrepancy between our expectations based on preclinical models and the results of clinical trials calls for a revision of our theoretical views and questions every stage of translation-from how we model the disease to how we run clinical trials. In the following sections, we will use some specific examples of the therapeutics from acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to recent anti-Aβ immunization and γ-secretase inhibition to discuss whether preclinical studies could predict the limitations in efficacy and side effects that we were so disappointed to observe in recent clinical trials. We discuss ways to improve both the predictive validity of mouse models and the translation of knowledge between preclinical and clinical stages of drug development.

Indexed as

Drug DesignAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansTranslational Research, Biomedical

Identifiers

PMID21937983
PMCPMC3238084

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