中国神经再生研究(英文版) ›› 2023, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (12): 2633-2637.doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.373670

• 综述:退行性病与再生 • 上一篇    下一篇

Tau相关神经退行性疾病的治疗:靶向分子、突触和细胞

  

  • 出版日期:2023-12-15 发布日期:2023-06-14

Therapies for Tau-associated neurodegenerative disorders: targeting molecules, synapses, and cells

Miranda Robbins*   

  1. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Ave, Trumpington, Cambridge, UK; University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK
  • Online:2023-12-15 Published:2023-06-14
  • Contact: Miranda Robbins, PhD, mrobbins@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (to MR).

摘要: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6576-5763 (Miranda Robbins)

Abstract: Advances in experimental and computational technologies continue to grow rapidly to provide novel avenues for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. Despite this, there remain only a handful of drugs that have shown success in late-stage clinical trials for Tau-associated neurodegenerative disorders. The most commonly prescribed treatments are symptomatic treatments such as cholinesterase inhibitors and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blockers that were approved for use in Alzheimer’s disease. As diagnostic screening can detect disorders at earlier time points, the field needs pre-symptomatic treatments that can prevent, or significantly delay the progression of these disorders (Koychev et al., 2019). These approaches may be different from late-stage treatments that may help to ameliorate symptoms and slow progression once symptoms have become more advanced should early diagnostic screening fail. This mini-review will highlight five key avenues of academic and industrial research for identifying therapeutic strategies to treat Tau-associated neurodegenerative disorders. These avenues include investigating (1) the broad class of chemicals termed “small molecules”; (2) adaptive immunity through both passive and active antibody treatments; (3) innate immunity with an emphasis on microglial modulation; (4) synaptic compartments with the view that Tau-associated neurodegenerative disorders are synaptopathies. Although this mini-review will focus on Alzheimer’s disease due to its prevalence, it will also argue the need to target other tauopathies, as through understanding Alzheimer’s disease as a Tau-associated neurodegenerative disorder, we may be able to generalize treatment options. For this reason, added detail linking back specifically to Tau protein as a direct therapeutic target will be added to each topic.

Key words: Alzheimer’s disease, antibody, frontotemporal dementia, immunotherapy, small molecules, synapses, tau, therapeutics