Liposome delivery systems for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Callum Ross, Mark Taylor, Nigel Fullwood, David Allsop Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will affect around 115 million people worldwide by the year 2050. It is...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9126dfe615c4476aba3128261a4a69de2021-12-02T04:58:31ZLiposome delivery systems for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease1178-2013https://doaj.org/article/9126dfe615c4476aba3128261a4a69de2018-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.dovepress.com/liposome-delivery-systems-for-the-treatment-of-alzheimers-disease-peer-reviewed-article-IJNhttps://doaj.org/toc/1178-2013Callum Ross, Mark Taylor, Nigel Fullwood, David Allsop Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will affect around 115 million people worldwide by the year 2050. It is associated with the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins (β-amyloid and tau) in the senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles found in the brain. Currently available drugs for AD only temporarily alleviate symptoms and do not slow the inevitable progression of this disease. New drugs are required that act on key pathologies in order to arrest or reverse cognitive decline. However, there has been a spectacular failure rate in clinical trials of conventional small molecule drugs or biological agents. Targeted nanoliposomes represent a viable and promising drug delivery system for AD that have not yet reached clinical trials. They are biocompatible, highly flexible, and have the potential to carry many different types of therapeutic molecules across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and into brain cells. They can be tailored to extend blood circulation time and can be directed against individual or multiple pathological targets. Modifications so far have included the use of brain-penetrating peptides, together with Aβ-targeting ligands, such as phosphatidic acid, curcumin, and a retro-inverted peptide that inhibits Aβ aggregation. Combining several modifications together into multifunctional liposomes is currently a research area of great interest. This review focuses on recent liposomal approaches to AD therapy, including mechanisms involved in facilitating their passage across the BBB, and the evaluation of new therapeutic agents for blocking Aβ and/or tau aggregation. Keywords: amyloid, blood–brain barrier, cell-penetrating peptides, neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques, tauRoss CTaylor MFullwood NAllsop DDove Medical Pressarticleamyloidblood brain barriercell penetrating peptidesneurofibrillary tanglessenile plaquesTauMedicine (General)R5-920ENInternational Journal of Nanomedicine, Vol Volume 13, Pp 8507-8522 (2018)
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topic amyloid
blood brain barrier
cell penetrating peptides
neurofibrillary tangles
senile plaques
Tau
Medicine (General)
R5-920
spellingShingle amyloid
blood brain barrier
cell penetrating peptides
neurofibrillary tangles
senile plaques
Tau
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Ross C
Taylor M
Fullwood N
Allsop D
Liposome delivery systems for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
description Callum Ross, Mark Taylor, Nigel Fullwood, David Allsop Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will affect around 115 million people worldwide by the year 2050. It is associated with the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins (β-amyloid and tau) in the senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles found in the brain. Currently available drugs for AD only temporarily alleviate symptoms and do not slow the inevitable progression of this disease. New drugs are required that act on key pathologies in order to arrest or reverse cognitive decline. However, there has been a spectacular failure rate in clinical trials of conventional small molecule drugs or biological agents. Targeted nanoliposomes represent a viable and promising drug delivery system for AD that have not yet reached clinical trials. They are biocompatible, highly flexible, and have the potential to carry many different types of therapeutic molecules across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and into brain cells. They can be tailored to extend blood circulation time and can be directed against individual or multiple pathological targets. Modifications so far have included the use of brain-penetrating peptides, together with Aβ-targeting ligands, such as phosphatidic acid, curcumin, and a retro-inverted peptide that inhibits Aβ aggregation. Combining several modifications together into multifunctional liposomes is currently a research area of great interest. This review focuses on recent liposomal approaches to AD therapy, including mechanisms involved in facilitating their passage across the BBB, and the evaluation of new therapeutic agents for blocking Aβ and/or tau aggregation. Keywords: amyloid, blood–brain barrier, cell-penetrating peptides, neurofibrillary tangles, senile plaques, tau
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