A tricyclic antidepressant, amoxapine, reduces amyloid-β generation through multiple serotonin receptor 6-mediated targets

Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major and devastating neurodegenerative disease, and the amyloid-β (Aβ) hypothesis is still the central theory for AD pathogenesis. Meanwhile, another major mental illness, depression, is one of the risk factors for AD. From a high-throughput screening (HTS), a...

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Main Authors: Xiaohang Li, Qinying Wang, Tingting Hu, Ying Wang, Jian Zhao, Jing Lu, Gang Pei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04144-3

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