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Trial reportTranslational psychiatry2024

Davunetide sex-dependently boosts memory in prodromal Alzheimer's disease.

Illana Gozes, Jason Blatt, Alexandra Lobyntseva

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Translational psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00422981 (A Phase 2, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Effect on Cognitive Function of AL-108 After 12 Weeks of Intranasal Administration in Subjects With Mild Cognitive Impairment), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT00422981 phase2completednot on this map

A Phase 2, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Effect on Cognitive Function of AL-108 After 12 Weeks of Intranasal Administration in Subjects With Mild Cognitive Impairment

TypeinterventionalSponsorAllon TherapeuticsRan2007 to 2008Enrolled144ConditionsMild Cognitive Impairment, So StatedArmsAL-108, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Imaging microtubule dynamics: A new frontier in biomarker development for neurodegenerative diseases.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  7. Twenty years of therapeutic development in tauopathy mouse models: a scoping review.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Don't Devoid Emotions from Science.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Illana GozesThe Elton Laboratory for Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Sagol School of Neuroscience and Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. igozes@tauex.tau.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0001-9796-2430
Jason BlattThe Elton Laboratory for Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Sagol School of Neuroscience and Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0009-0009-3278-5782
Alexandra LobyntsevaThe Elton Laboratory for Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Sagol School of Neuroscience and Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe tauopathy inhibitor, davunetide shows sex-dependent efficacy in women suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy. Extending these findings to prodromal Alzheimer's disease, we submitted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 12 weeks/16 weeks follow-up, davunetide clinical trial results in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT00422981), to a sex-dependent analysis.

methodsOne hundred forty-four individuals, separated into eight groups (1:2 placebo-and 2 doses, 5 mg davunetide/daily or 15 mg davunetide/twice-daily, with matching placebo intranasal volumes), were evaluated.

resultsSignificant dose-dependent cognitive increases were observed in men compared to women with a test of delayed (12 ss) visual matching to the sample. In a test of semantic working memory and attention (digit span), women showed a significant low-dose placebo effect, ensuing in a high dose significant davunetide improvement, over the matched placebo. Correlating anxiety with cognition showed sex-opposing results, with women depicting significant anxiety correlations with delayed matching to sample. DISCUSSION: In conclusion, sex-specific prodromal Alzheimer's drug development is encouraged, with davunetide playing a lead initiative role.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionProdromal SymptomsAgedDose-Response Relationship, DrugDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermMiddle AgedSex Factors

Identifiers

PMID39358355
PMCPMC11446927

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