Title : New hope from an old drug: fighting Alzheimer's disease with the cancer drug bexarotene (targretin)?

Pub. Date : 2013 Dec

PMID : 24047423






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1 Landreth"s group in three murine models of AD has shown that the RXR agonist bexarotene (Targretin), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved and used since 1999 for the treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphoma, promotes a fast ApoE-dependent clearance of soluble Abeta peptides from the brain, reduces Abeta plaques, and stimulates the reversal of cognitive, social, and olfactory deficits. Bexarotene apolipoprotein E Mus musculus
2 Landreth"s group in three murine models of AD has shown that the RXR agonist bexarotene (Targretin), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved and used since 1999 for the treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphoma, promotes a fast ApoE-dependent clearance of soluble Abeta peptides from the brain, reduces Abeta plaques, and stimulates the reversal of cognitive, social, and olfactory deficits. Bexarotene apolipoprotein E Mus musculus