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ArticleClinical nuclear medicine2025

Dampening of Microglial Activation With Nasal Foralumab Administration in Moderate Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.

Tarun Singhal, Steven Cicero, Seth A Gale, Nicolas Horan, Shipra Dubey, Gad A Marshall, Howard L Weiner

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Article in Clinical nuclear medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Imaging of intranasal drug delivery to the brain: updated review 2.0.Drug delivery and translational research · 2026
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  5. Glial Cells in Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tarun SinghalDepartment of Neurology, PET Imaging Program in Neurologic Diseases, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.
Steven CiceroDepartment of Neurology, PET Imaging Program in Neurologic Diseases, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.
Seth A GaleDepartment of Neurology, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.
Nicolas HoranDepartment of Neurology, PET Imaging Program in Neurologic Diseases, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.
Shipra DubeyDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Gad A MarshallDepartment of Neurology, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.
Howard L WeinerDepartment of Neurology, PET Imaging Program in Neurologic Diseases, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 78-year-old man with moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia was treated with nasal-foralumab, a fully human anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, as part of a Food and Drug Administration expanded-access-program, based on previously demonstrated efficacy of anti-CD3 antibody in animal models. 18 F-PBR06-PET, utilizing a second-generation 18-kDa-translocator-protein ligand targeting microglia, showed diffuse reduction of radiotracer uptake throughout the brain, following 3 months of nasal-foralumab compared with baseline. In particular, precuneus, posterior cingulate and anterior cingulate gyri, regions that had high levels of amyloid deposition on a baseline 18 F-Florbetapir-PET scan, showed reduction in microglial activation after nasal-foralumab treatment for 3 months.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedMicrogliaAdministration, IntranasalAgedHumansMalePositron-Emission TomographyAntibodies, MonoclonalAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAlzheimer’s diseasemicroglianasal foralumabneuroinflammationTSPO-PET

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PMID40359013
PMCPMC12208394

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