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Curcumin in Health and Diseases: Alzheimer’s Disease and Curcumin Analogues, Derivatives, and Hybrids

Eirini Chainoglou, Dimitra Hadjipavlou‐Litina

International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2020

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Summary

Worldwide, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative multifactorial disease influencing the elderly population. Nowadays, several medications, among them curcumin, are used in the treatment of AD. Curcumin, which is the principal component of <i>Curcuma longa</i>, has shown favorable effects forsignificantly preventing or treating AD. During the last decade, the scientific community has focused their research on the optimization of therapeutic properties and on the improvement of pharmacokinetic properties of curcumin. This review summarizes bibliographical data from 2009 to 2019 on curcumin analogues, derivatives, and hybrids, as well as their therapeutic, preventic, and diagnostic applications in AD. Recent advances in the field have revealed that the phenolic hydroxy

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3390/ijms21061975
Catalogue ID
SNmoi53hse-ik1v83
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