Advances in understanding the processes underlying brain neurodegeneration have allowed lots of new treatment and prevention strategies to begin to flourish. Several presentations at the 2024 Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases Conference recently held in Lisbon reflect that eyes are now on some individuals who, despite showing pathological signs in their brains, stay cognitively healthy across several endogenous mechanisms of resilience.
In a new study, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Regulus Therapeutics Inc. further investigated the role of miR-155 in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
TET2 is a master epigenetic enzyme that converts 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC), reprograming tumor cells and causing them to enter a dormant state.
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an inflammatory skin disease with significant diagnostic delay. Type XXII collagen is a fibrillar collagen located in the skin epidermis. Reliable biomarkers to aid in the diagnosis of HS and monitor the severity of disease are needed.
The activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome exacerbates neuronal dysfunction in several neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as multiple sclerosis. Targeting NLRP3 is an approach to overcome brain inflammation, among others.
In allergic diseases, STAT6 is a critical transcription factor in the IL-4 and IL-13 signaling pathways and the key driver of Th2 inflammation. Because STAT6 functions through protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, selectively and potently inhibiting STAT6 with traditional small-molecule inhibitors has been a challenge. However, it is well suited for a targeted protein degradation approach, whereby a binding event is adequate to direct degradation.
The small-molecule steroid sulfatase (STS) inhibitor STX-64 (ONESTX-1, irosustat) previously showed a good safety and tolerability profile in several phase I and II clinical trials that evaluated the candidate for oncology indications.
Work was conducted at the University of Bialystok to study plasma galectins (1, 2 and 12) plus serum and urinary levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), endothelin-1 (ET-1) and α1-acid-glycoprotein (α1AGP) in regards to the relationship between psoriasis and its related complications.
Recent findings have suggested GAL-201 from Galimedix Therapeutics Inc. is a robust oral candidate to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD). GAL-201 binds to the misfolded form of amyloid-β (Aβ) monomers, thus preventing its aggregation and formation of neurotoxic oligomers and protofibrils.
The third day of the AD/PD 2024 conference in Lisbon started with a plenary lecture given by Professor Howard Fillit entitled, “Translating the biology of aging into new therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease.” Fillit, a recognized neuroscientist and geriatrician, and co-founder of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), pointed to the geroscience hypothesis which postulates that targeting aging processes may result in preventive and therapeutic options for diseases of old age, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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