Autophagy in Alzheimer's disease and promising modulatory effects of herbal medicine
Experimental Gerontology(2019)
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and unremitting neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss and cognitive impairment. It affects the quality of life of victims severely. The prevalence of AD has been increasing in recent years. Therefore, it is of great importance to elucidate the pathogenesis of AD and find out effective therapeutic approaches. Autophagy, a primary intracellular way of degrading aggregated proteins and damaged organelles, has been discovered to be involved in the pathological changes of AD. In the last few years, much progress has been made in finding autophagy regulators from natural products, providing new insights to develop treatment strategy for AD by targeting autophagy. In the present review, we provided an overview of the recent research progress regarding the function role of autophagy in AD, the regulation mechanisms of autophagy-lysosomal pathway as well as therapeutic potential of herbal medicine on AD by targeting autophagy.
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AD,APP,Aβ,NFTs,BACE-1,PS1,ER,HSC70,LAMP-2A,PI3K,TSC1/2,Rheb,mTORC,AMPK,ULK1,TFEB,BBB,LDH,AChE
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