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ReviewJournal of translational medicine2024

Passive immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease: challenges & future directions.

Ling Xiao Yi, Eng King Tan, Zhi Dong Zhou

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Review in Journal of translational medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  12. Alzheimer disease: Amyloid peptide controversies and challenges of anti-Aβ immunotherapy.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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  15. Targeted protein degradation with bifunctional molecules as a novel therapeutic modality for Alzheimer's disease & beyond.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  18. Body Composition and Alzheimer's Disease: A Holistic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ling Xiao YiNational Neuroscience Institute of Singapore, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 30843, Singapore.
Eng King TanNational Neuroscience Institute of Singapore, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 30843, Singapore. tan.eng.king@singhealth.com.sg.
Zhi Dong ZhouNational Neuroscience Institute of Singapore, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 30843, Singapore. zhidong.zhou@duke-nus.edu.sg.ORCID 0000-0003-0251-4163

Funding

Duke-NUS Medical School dUKE-duke-nus collaboration pilot grantSingapore National Academy of Science C-IRGSingapore National Academy of Science HLCA2022Singapore National Academy of Science OF LCG 000207Singapore National Academy of Science star award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Passive immunotherapy with specific antibodies targeting Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide or tubulin-associated unit (tau) protein has emerged as a promising therapeutic approach in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, in a recent phase III clinical study, Sperling et al. (N Engl J Med 10.1056/NEJMoa2305032, 2023) reported that solanezumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting Aβ peptide, failed to slow cognitive decline in AD patients. Previously, three other anti-Aβ antibodies, bapineuzumab, crenezumab, and gantenerumab, have also failed to show similar beneficial effects. In addition, three humanized antibodies targeting tau protein failed in their phase II trials. However, other anti-Aβ antibodies, such as lecanemab (a humanized mAb binds to soluble Aβ protofibrils), donanemab (a humanized mAb binds to insoluble, N-terminal truncated form of Aβ peptides) and aducanumab (a human mAb binds to the aggregated form of Aβ), have been shown to slow the decline of cognitive functions in early stage AD patients. The specific targets used in passive immunotherapy in these clinical trials may explain the divergent clinical outcomes. There are several challenges and limitations of passive immunotherapy using anti-Aβ antibodies and long term longitudinal studies are needed to assess their efficacy, side effects and cost effectiveness in a wider spectrum of subjects, from pre-dementia to more advanced dementia. A combination therapeutic approach using both anti-Aβ antibodies and other pharmaceutical agents should also be explored.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, MonoclonalHumansImmunization, PassiveAmyloid beta-PeptidesAntibodies, Monoclonal

Identifiers

PMID38715084
PMCPMC11075320

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