Felodipine induces autophagy in mouse brains with pharmacokinetics amenable to repurposing

Felodipine induces autophagy in mouse brains with pharmacokinetics amenable to repurposing

A key challenge is to find/re-purpose approved drugs that could be used in humans to induce autophagy-associated clearance of neurodegenerative proteins. Here, authors demonstrate that felodipine, an anti-hypertensive drug, can induce autophagy and clear a variety of aggregated neurodegenerative dis...

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Main Authors: Farah H. Siddiqi, Fiona M. Menzies, Ana Lopez, Eleanna Stamatakou, Cansu Karabiyik, Rodrigo Ureshino, Thomas Ricketts, Maria Jimenez-Sanchez, Miguel Angel Esteban, Liangxue Lai, Micky D. Tortorella, Zhiwei Luo, Hao Liu, Emmanouil Metzakopian, Hugo J. R. Fernandes, Andrew Bassett, Eric Karran, Bruce L. Miller, Angeleen Fleming, David C. Rubinsztein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09494-2

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09494-2

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