Is a potential Alzheimer's therapy already in use for other conditions?: Can medications for hypertension, diabetes and acne help with the symptoms?

Anne Corbett; Clive Ballard

doi:10.1517/13543784.2013.815723

Is a potential Alzheimer's therapy already in use for other conditions? Can medications for hypertension, diabetes and acne help with the symptoms?

Anne Corbett, Clive Ballard^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There is an urgent need to develop and evaluate more effective pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD). This editorial explores the avenue of drug repositioning and outlines a number of existing treatments that show great promise as therapies, in addition to discussing the potential for high-throughput drug discovery techniques in this important field.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	941-943
Number of pages	3
Journal	Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs
Volume	22
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1517/13543784.2013.815723
Publication status	Published - Aug 2013

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease
pharmacological
repositioning
DISEASE
MINOCYCLINE
DRUGS
Acknowledged-BRU
Acknowledged-BRU-13/14
Acknowledged-BRC

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