Robust central reduction of amyloid-beta in humans with an orally available, non-peptidic beta-secretase inhibitor.
May, P.C., Dean, R.A., Lowe, S.L., Martenyi, F., Sheehan, S.M., Boggs, L.N., Monk, S.A., Mathes, B.M., Mergott, D.J., Watson, B.M., Stout, S.L., Timm, D.E., Smith Labell, E., Gonzales, C.R., Nakano, M., Jhee, S.S., Yen, M., Ereshefsky, L., Lindstrom, T.D., Calligaro, D.O., Cocke, P.J., Greg Hall, D., Friedrich, S., Citron, M., Audia, J.E.(2011) J Neurosci 31: 16507-16516
- PubMed: 22090477 
- DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3647-11.2011
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4YBI - PubMed Abstract: 
According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, cerebral deposition of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) is critical for Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Aβ generation is initiated when β-secretase (BACE1) cleaves the amyloid precursor protein. For more than a decade, BACE1 has been a prime target for designing drugs to prevent or treat AD ...