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Combination Therapy in Alzheimer???s Disease: A Review of Current Evidence
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Treating dementia has become a major challenge in clinical practice. Presently, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are the first-line drugs in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). These options are now complemented by memantine, which is approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe AD. Altogether, a minimum of six agent classes already exist, all of which are approved for clinical use and are either already being tested or ready for phase III clinical trials for the treatment of AD. These include cholinesterase inhibitors, blockers of the NMDA receptor, antioxidants or blockers of oxidative deamination (including Gingko biloba), anti-inflammatory agents, neurotrophic factors (including hormone replacement therapy and drugs acting on insulin signal transduction) and antiamyloid agents (including cholesterol-lowering therapy). These approaches hold promise for disease modification and have a potential to be used as combination therapy for cognitive enhancement. Presently, only nine clinical studies have been published that have investigated the effects of a combination regimen on cognitive performance or AD. Among those, one study was conducted in elderly cognitively intact persons; the others involved patients with AD. Only five of the treatment studies followed a randomised, controlled design. Not all studies favoured the superior efficacy of combination therapy over monotherapy. Some studies, however, showed some evidence for synergistic combination effects of symptomatic therapy, including delay or prevention of disease progression in AD patients. In addition, six studies investigated the effects of AChE inhibitor in combination with antipsychotic or antidepressant therapy on behavioural aspects of AD symptomatology. In four of those studies there were indications that combination therapy had greater efficacy over monotherapy. The treatment of AD patients requires optimised options for all stages of illness based on the available drugs. There is a great need for further well designed studies on combination therapy in AD.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmitt, B., Bernhardt, T., Moeller, H.-J., Heuser, I., & Fr??lich, L.
- Affiliations
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- ORCID
- Heuser, Isabella
- Venue
- CNS Drugs
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 827-844
- ISSN
- 1172-7047 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2135793938
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 130
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CNS Drugs (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, combination therapy, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, memantine, NMDA receptor antagonists, antioxidants, Ginkgo biloba, anti-inflammatory agents, neurotrophic factors, hormone replacement therapy, insulin signaling, cholesterol-lowering therapy, disease modification, cognitive enhancement, behavioural symptoms, dementia treatment
- MeSH terms
- Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Antioxidants, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Cognition, Combined Modality Therapy, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Humans, Male, Estrogen Replacement Therapy
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