60 results about "Frontotemporal dementia" patented technology

The invention relates to dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives, the production thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing said dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives. The invention further relates to the use of said dihydroxyphenylalanine derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and prevention of movement disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer, Parkinson's disease, hemiatrophy hemiparkinsonism, Parkinson's syndrome, Lewy bodies disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lytico-Bodig disease (Parkinsonism-dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, striatonigral degeneration, Shy-Drager syndrome, sporadic olivopontocerebellar degeneration, progressive pallidal atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, Hallervorden-Spatz disease, Huntington's disease, X chromosome-linked dystonia (Morbus Lubag), mitochondrial cytopathy with striatal necrosis, neuroacanthocytosis, restless leg syndrome, Wilson's disease.

Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for identifying and / or treating subjects having or likely to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Antibodies specific for one or more di-amino acid repeat-containing proteins are also provided herein.

The invention is generally directed to methods and compositions that include antibodies, e.g., monoclonal, chimeric, humanized antibodies, antibody fragments, etc., that specifically bind a TREM2 protein, e.g., a mammalian TREM2 and / or human TREM2. The methods provided herein find use in preventing, reducing risk, or treating an individual having dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Nasu-Hakola disease, or multiple sclerosis.

The present invention relates to monoclonal anti-Sortilin antibodies which have been found useful in correcting a deficient level of progranulin (PGRN). In particular, these antibodies can be used in the treatment of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimers disease (AD).

Some aspects of the invention provide for a method of treating Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Frontotemperal Dementia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and / or Multiple Sclerosis using polyunsaturated fatty acids which are modified in certain positions to attenuate oxidative damage by Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and / or suppress the rate of formation of reactive products and toxic compounds.

Provided are compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing the amount or activity of Tau mRNA in a cell or animal, and in certain instances reducing the amount of Tau protein in a cell or animal. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to ameliorate at least one symptom of a neurodegenerative disease. Such symptoms include loss of memory, loss of motor function, and increase in the number and / or volume of neurofibrillary inclusions. Such neurodegenerative diseases include tauopathies, Alzheimer's Disease, Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD), FTDP-17, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Corticobasal Ganglionic Degeneration (CBD), Epilepsy, and Dravet's Syndrome.

The present invention relates to use of compounds of formula (I) as a free base or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or solvate of salt thereof, a process for their preparation and new intermediates used therein, as pharmaceutical ingredients for treatment of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Frontotemporal dementia Parkinson's Type, Parkinson dementia complex of Guam, HIV dementia, diseases with associated neurofibrillar tangle pathologies and / or dementia pugilistica .

The present invention relates to combinations and methods for the treatment of neurological disorders related Amyloid beta toxicity and / or neuronal death and / or glucose impaired neuronal metabolism. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel combinatorial therapies of Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's disease related disorders, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia, Huntington's disease, peripheral neuropathies, alcoholism or alcohol withdrawal, neurological manifestations of drug abuse or drug abuse withdrawal, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury or brain ischemic events based on baclofen, acamprosate and at least one medium chain triglyceride.

The present invention relates to bis-heteroaryl compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for preventing, reversing, slowing, or inhibiting protein aggregation, and methods of treating diseases that are associated with protein aggregation, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, Parkinson's disease with dementia, fronto-temporal dementia, Huntington's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple system atrophy, and cancer including melanoma.

The present invention relates to certain bicyclic bis-heteroaryl compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for preventing, reversing, slowing, or inhibiting protein aggregation, and methods of treating diseases that are associated with protein aggregation, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, Parkinson's disease with dementia, fronto-temporal dementia, Huntington's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple system atrophy, and cancer including melanoma.

Provided are compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing the amount or activity of Tau mRNA in a cell or animal, and in certain instances reducing the amount of Tau protein in a cell or animal. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to ameliorate at least one symptom of a neurodegenerative disease. Such symptoms include loss of memory, loss of motor function, and increase in the number and / or volume of neurofibrillary inclusions. Such neurodegenerative diseases include tauopathies, Alzheimer's Disease, Fronto-temporal Dementia (FTD), FTDP-17, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Corticobasal Ganglionic Degeneration (CBD), Epilepsy, and Dravet's Syndrome.

Methods of improving neurodegenerative disease with CCR3 modulating agents are provided. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of the CCR3 modulating agent to the subject, with a concomitant improvement in cognition, motor, or other neurodegenerative-affected function. Cognitive and motor diseases upon which the methods of the invention can improve cognition include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, myotonic dystrophy, vascular dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy.

The present invention relates to a method of differentially diagnosing different types of dementia. In particular, the method relates to the use of specific SPECT tracers for differentially diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, Lewy-Body Dementia, and Frontotemporal Dementia.

The invention provides methods and uses for delivering progranulin to the central nervous system (CNS) of a mammal. Methods and uses include, for example, administering to a mammal a vector comprising a nucleic acid encoding progranulin, variant, derivative or functional fragment thereof to the mammal's brain ventricle to transduce CNS cells and / or cells that contact the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the mammal such that the cells express the progranulin, variant, derivative or functional fragment thereof.

The invention is directed to substituted isoquinoline derivatives and uses thereof. Specifically, the invention is directed to compounds according to Formula I and the use of compounds of Formula (I)in treating disease states: (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and X are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are inhibitors of PERK and can be useful in the treatment of cancer, pre-cancerous syndromes and diseases associated with activated unfolded protein response pathways, such as Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, stroke, Parkinson disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, metabolic disorders, Huntington's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, fatal familial insomnia, Gerstmann-Str ussler-Scheinker syndrome, and related prion diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive supranuclear palsy, myocardial infarction, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, organ fibrosis, chronic and acute diseases of the liver, fatty liver disease, liver steatosis, liver fibrosis, chronic and acute diseases of the lung, lung fibrosis, chronic and acute diseases of the kidney, kidney fibrosis, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), neurodegeneration, dementias, frontotemporal dementias, tauopathies, Pick's disease, Neimann-Pick's disease, amyloidosis, cognitive impairment, ather osclerosis, ocular diseases, arrhythmias, in organ transplantation and in the transportation of organs for transplantation. Accordingly, the invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the invention. The inventionis still further directed to methods of inhibiting PERK activity and treatment of disorders associated therewith using a compound of the invention or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the invention.

The invention relates to a pyrazine compound, a stereoisomer, a tautomer and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the pyrazine compound, the stereoisomer, the tautomer and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can treat Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, frontal temporal dementia (FTD), vascular dementia, HIV-related dementia, multiple sclerosis,progressive spinal cord lateral sclerosis, Friedel-Crafts ataxia, neuropathic pain or glaucoma and other neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes mellitus and related diabetic complications, inflammations, oxidative damage and mitochondria-related diseases.

A method of detecting the presence, or monitoring the severity of a condition characterised by the presence of fragments of a marker protein in the brain of a patient. The method comprises: (i) providing a sample comprising macrophages obtained from the patient; and (ii) detecting the presence of the marker protein or fragments thereof in the macrophages. The presence of abnormal levels of the marker protein and / or fragments thereof in the macrophages is indicative of the presence of the condition in the patient. The condition and the marker proteins can be: Alzheimer's Disease and the Abeta peptide, Parkinson's Disease and ubiquitin, Multiple Sclerosis and myelin basic protein, FrontoTemporal Dementia and tau, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and tau, Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body dementia or Alzheimer's Disease and alpha-synuclein.

A method of detecting the presence, or monitoring the severity of a condition characterized by the presence of fragments of a marker protein in the brain of a patient. The method comprises: (i) providing a sample comprising macrophages obtained from the patient; and (ii) detecting the presence of the marker protein or fragments thereof in the macrophages. The presence of abnormal levels of the marker protein and / or fragments thereof in the macrophages is indicative of the presence of the condition in the patient. The condition and the marker proteins can be: Alzheimer's Disease and the Abeta peptide, Parkinson's Disease and ubiquitin, Multiple Sclerosis and myelin basic protein, FrontoTemporal Dementia and tau, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and tau, Parkinson's disease, Lewy Body dementia or Alzheimer's Disease and alpha-synuclein.

Peptide 6 and in particular, Peptide 021, may be used to treat tauopathies, such as frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome-17 (FTDP-17) tau, corticobasal degeneration, Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, Guam Parkinsonism dementia complex, dementia pugilistica also known as traumatic encephalopathy or traumatic brain injury, ceroid neuronal lipofusinosis, Hallerworden Sptaz disease, Alzheimer's disease, and adults with Down syndrome.

The invention provides application of transferrin and transferrin combined sodium oligomannate capsule and composition containing the sodium oligomannate capsule, and in particular relates to application of the transferrin or the transferrin combined sodium oligomannate capsule to preparation of a medicine for preventing or / and improving or / and treating dementia. and the composition containing thesodium oligomannate capsule comprises the sodium oligomannate capsule and the transferrin. The invention has the beneficial effects that the transferrin can improve the cognitive level of a dementiapatient, and with the combined use of the transferrin and the sodium oligomannate capsule, the effect of the sodium oligomannate capsule to prevent, improve and treat Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, such as vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, lewy body dementia,dementia caused by brain traumas and dementia caused by neuroinflammation, is further improved.

The present invention is in the field of transactive response DNA binding protein with a molecular weight of 43 kDa (TARDB or also TDP-43). The invention relates to TDP-43 specific binding molecules,in particular to anti-TDP-43 antibodies or an antigen-binding fragment or a derivative thereof and uses thereof. The present invention provides means and methods to diagnose, prevent, alleviate and / ortreat a disorder and / or abnormality associated with misfolded TDP-43 including but not limited to frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD, sporadicand familial), and / or Parkinson's disease (PD). The present invention provides modified conformation-specific antigenic peptides and peptide fragments derived from the TDP-43 protein and the antibodies obtainable by said peptides or fragments for use in the diagnosis, prevention, alleviation and / or treatment of TDP-43-related disorders and / or abnormalities.

The invention concerns a compound of formula 2-phenyl-6-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)quinazoline or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for use in the treatment of a neurodegenerative disease. The neurodegenerative disease is a disease selected from the group consisting of Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington disease, prion diseases, HIV-associated dementia and any form of cognitive disorders linked to neurodegeneration, preferably Alzheimer's disease.

Peptide 6 and in particular, Peptide 021, may be used to treat tauopathies, such as frontotemporal dementia with Parkinsonism linked to chromosome-17 (FTDP-17) tau, corticobasal degeneration, Pick disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, Guam Parkinsonism dementia complex, dementia pugilistica also known as traumatic encephalopathy or traumatic brain injury, ceroid neuronal lipofusinosis, Hallerworden Sptaz disease, Alzheimer's disease, and adults with Down syndrome.

The invention relates to pyrazine compounds, stereoisomers, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the pyrazine compounds. The pyrazine compounds can be used for treating Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, frontal temporal dementia (FTD), vascular dementia, HIV-related dementia, multiple sclerosis, progressive spinal cord lateral sclerosis, Friedel-Crafts ataxia, neuropathic pain or glaucoma and other neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes mellitus and related diabetic complications, inflammation, oxidative damage and mitochondria-related diseases.

The present invention relates to monoclonal anti-Sortilin antibodies which have been found useful in correcting a deficient level of progranulin (PGRN). In particular, these antibodies can be used in the treatment of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimers disease (AD).

The present invention discloses compositions, means and kits thereof for treating neuronal clinical indications in a mammalian subject. The composition comprises, inter alia, a synergistic combination of an anti-inflammatory drug and a DICER activator. The present invention further discloses methods for treating neuronal diseases including Motor neuron diseases (MNDs), ALS, FTD (Frontotemporal Dementia), macular degeneration (AMD) autism, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

The invention relates to pyrazine compounds, stereoisomers, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the pyrazine compounds. The compounds can be used for treating Alzheimer's disease. Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, frontal temporal dementia (FTD), vascular dementia, HIV-related dementia, multiple sclerosis, progressive spinal cord lateral sclerosis, Friedel-Crafts ataxia, neuropathic pain or glaucoma and other neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes mellitus and related diabetic complications, inflammation, oxidative damage and mitochondria-related diseases.

Methods of improving neurodegenerative disease with CCR3 modulating agents are provided. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of the CCR3 modulating agent to the subject, with a concomitant improvement in cognition, motor, or other neurodegenerative-affected function. Cognitive and motor diseases upon which the methods of the invention can improve cognition include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, myotonic dystrophy, vascular dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy.

The invention discloses application of ramulus et folium picrasmae extract to preparing medicines or healthcare products for preventing and treating neurodegenerative diseases. The ramulus et folium picrasmae extract comprises ramulus et folium picrasmae ethyl acetate extract and / or beta-carboline alkaloid separated from ramulus et folium picrasmae. The neurodegenerative diseases include Alzheimer's diseases, Parkinson's diseases, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's diseases and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The application has the advantage that novel treatment pathways further can be provided to preventing and / or treating the neurodegenerative diseases.

This invention describes the use of indane acetic acid derivatives which are dual PPAR delta / gamma agonists, and which penetrate the Blood Brain Barrier and achieve effective brain to plasma drug levels at non-toxic doses, for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including one or more of the following: Alzheimer's Disease (AD); Huntington's Disease (HD); Parkinson's Disease (PD); Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Frontal Temporal Dementia (FTD); Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD); Progressive Supranuclear Palsey (PSP); Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB); or Multiple Sclerosis (MS).