Recent Developments in Tacrine-based Hybrids as a Therapeutic Option for Alzheimer's Disease

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial, irreversible, and age-related neurodegenerative disorder among the elderly. AD attracts attention due to its complex pathogenesis, morbidity and mortality rates, and the limitations of drugs used in the treatment of AD. Cholinesterase inhibitors and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists are used in the clinic. While tacrine, donepezil, galantamine, and rivastigmine are cholinesterase inhibitors, memantine is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist. However, these drugs could not delay the progress of AD. The traditional clinical approach which is the one drug-one target concept is not entirely effective in the treatment of AD. Also, it is of high-priority to develop potent and novel anti-AD drugs by the design concept of multitarget directed ligands (MTDLs) which combine pharmacophores interacting with different pathways in AD. This article provides an overview of the noteworthy structural modifications made to tacrine to develop novel candidates for anti-Alzheimer drugs. Due to the complex pathology of AD, multifunctional tacrine-based ligands targeting different hallmarks, β-amyloid, tau protein, N-methyl-Daspartate receptor, cholinesterases, monoamine oxidases, secretases, have been studied. Here, tacrinebased derivatives including heterocyclic structures such as dihydroxypyridine, chromene, coumarin, pyrazole, triazole, tetrahydroquinolone, dipicolylamine, arylisoxazole were reported with promising anti-AD effects compared to tacrine. In vitro and in vivo assays showed that new tacrine-based hybrids, which are selective, neuroprotective, and non-hepatotoxic, might be considered as remarkable anti-AD drug candidates for further clinical studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry - 23(2023), 7 vom: 01., Seite 869-880

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yamali, Cem [VerfasserIn]
Donmez, Seyda [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

β-amyloid
4VX7YNB537
8SSC91326P
Acetylcholinesterase
Alzheimer's disease
Amyloid beta-Peptides
Butyrylcholinesterase
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
Donepezil
EC 3.1.1.7
Journal Article
Ligands
MTDLs
Multi-target directed ligands
Review
Tacrine

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Date Completed 01.06.2023

Date Revised 01.06.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2174/1389557523666221201145141

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349773785