ReviewJournal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD2024
Tau Immunotherapies for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Tauopathies: Status of Trials and Insights from Preclinical Studies.
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- Clearing truncated tau protein restores neuronal function and prevents microglia activation in tauopathy mice.Cell reports · 2025Article
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- Synaptotoxic effects of extracellular tau are mediated by its microtubule-binding region.Acta neuropathologica · 2025Article
- Population-Based Validation Results From the Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer's Medicines (DREAM) Study.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Tau degradation in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Review
- The microbiota-gut-brain axis and central nervous system diseases: from mechanisms of pathogenesis to therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- α-synuclein and tau: interactions, cross-seeding, and the redefinition of synucleinopathies as complex proteinopathies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
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Abstract
The tau protein undergoes pathological changes in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies that eventually lead to functional impairments. Over the years, several therapeutic approaches have been examined to slow or halt the progression of tau pathology but have yet to lead to an approved disease-modifying treatment. Of the drugs in clinical trials that directly target tau, immunotherapies are the largest category and mostly consist of antibodies in different stages of development. There is a reasonable optimism that at least some of these compounds will have a clinically meaningful efficacy. This view is based on the significant although modest efficacy of some antibodies targeting amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease and the fact that tau pathology correlates much better with the degree of dementia than amyloid-β lesions. In Alzheimer's disease, clearing pathological tau may therefore improve function later in the disease process than when removing amyloid-β. This review provides a brief update on the active and passive clinical tau immunization trials with insight from preclinical studies. Various epitopes are being targeted and some of the antibodies are said to target extracellular tau but because almost all of pathological tau is found intracellularly, the most efficacious antibodies should be able to enter the cell.
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