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ReviewFrontiers in aging2025

Rock inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease.

Chao Zheng, Weiming Xia, Jianhua Zhang

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Review in Frontiers in aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Chao ZhengAzrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry, Brain Health Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada.
Weiming XiaGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, United States.
Jianhua ZhangDepartment of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.

Funding

Sex hormones and arthritis in a long lived animal modelP30AG050886 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Jianhua Zhang · 2015 to 2026
$11.3M
Big data and small molecules for Alzheimer's diseaseRF1AG063913 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI GOLDSTEIN, LEE E., XIA, WEIMING · 2019 to 2021
$2.9M
Mechanisms of Impaired Lysosomal Biogenesis and Autophagy in Alcohol-Associated Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG072895 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI DING, WEN-XING · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
The role of lysosomal impairment in trichloroethylene induced Parkinsonian neurodegenerationR01ES034846 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Briana De Miranda · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
O-GIcNAc regulation of mitochondrial function in astrocytes inneuroinflammatory Alzheimer's disease mouse modelR21AG081687 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI QIN, HONGWEI, ZHANG, JIANHUA · 2024 to 2024
$407k
BLRD VA I01 BX003527BLRD VA I01 BX004730NIA NIH HHS P30 AG050886NIA NIH HHS R01 AG072895NIA NIH HHS R21 AG081687NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG063913NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES034846
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disease and cause of dementia. AD pathology primarily involves the formation of amyloid β (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau). While Aβ targeted treatments have shown clinical promise, other aspects of AD pathology such as microgliosis, astrocytosis, synaptic loss, and hypometabolism may be viable targets for treatment. Among notable novel therapeutic approaches, the Ras homolog (Rho)-associated kinases (ROCKs) are being investigated as targets for AD treatment, based on the observations that ROCK1/2 levels are elevated in AD, and activation or inhibition of ROCKs changes dendritic/synaptic structures, protein aggregate accumulation, inflammation, and gliosis. This review will highlight key findings on the effects of ROCK inhibition in Aβ and ptau pathologies, as well as its effects on neuroinflammation, synaptic density, and potentially metabolism and bioenergetics.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseamyloidfasudilglucose metabolismmitochondriaPET imagingphosphorylated tausynapse

Identifiers

PMID40182055
PMCPMC11965611

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