Noble Wendy, Garwood Claire J, Hanger Diane P
Department of Neuroscience, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
Prion. 2009 Apr-Jun;3(2):78-83. doi: 10.4161/pri.3.2.8820. Epub 2009 Apr 21.
Many neurodegenerative disorders share common features including the accumulation of aggregated misfolded proteins, neuroinflammation and the induction of apoptosis. While the contributions of each of these individual elements to neuronal death remain unclear, a commonly used antibiotic, minocycline, has been shown to reduce the progression and severity of disease in several models of neurodegeneration by variously downregulating these molecular pathways. Here we discuss the evidence for the potential of minocycline as a broad-specificity therapeutic agent for those neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the presence of misfolded proteins.
许多神经退行性疾病具有共同特征,包括错误折叠蛋白的聚集、神经炎症以及细胞凋亡的诱导。虽然这些个体因素对神经元死亡的具体作用尚不清楚,但一种常用抗生素米诺环素已被证明,在多种神经退行性疾病模型中,通过不同程度地下调这些分子途径,可减缓疾病进展并减轻疾病严重程度。在此,我们讨论米诺环素作为一种具有广泛特异性的治疗药物,对那些以错误折叠蛋白存在为特征的神经退行性疾病的治疗潜力的相关证据。