Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases

Multitarget drugs are molecules with the ability to act simultaneously on different targets at the same time, and they have been evaluated in the last decade as a powerful tool in the development of promising therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. This is very useful for multifactorial disease...

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Main Authors: Eleftheria-Emmanouela Katsoulaki, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
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Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina
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description Multitarget drugs are molecules with the ability to act simultaneously on different targets at the same time, and they have been evaluated in the last decade as a powerful tool in the development of promising therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. This is very useful for multifactorial diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases, a group of neurological disorders that induce neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. Successful drug design for multifactorial diseases depends on an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. The complexity of the above pathologies has clearly demonstrated that such single-target drugs are inadequate to achieve a successful therapeutic result. Furthermore, molecules hitting more than one biological target exhibit also a safer profile. In this review, we present a comprehensive knowledge of recent research on multitarget synthetic approaches to confront Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s neurodegenerative diseases.
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spelling doaj-art-61a4efcd3c044d769526ab9a32e0fdf52025-08-20T03:27:32ZengMDPI AGPharmaceuticals1424-82472025-06-0118683110.3390/ph18060831Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration DiseasesEleftheria-Emmanouela Katsoulaki0Dimitrios Dimopoulos1Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina2Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceMultitarget drugs are molecules with the ability to act simultaneously on different targets at the same time, and they have been evaluated in the last decade as a powerful tool in the development of promising therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. This is very useful for multifactorial diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases, a group of neurological disorders that induce neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. Successful drug design for multifactorial diseases depends on an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach. The complexity of the above pathologies has clearly demonstrated that such single-target drugs are inadequate to achieve a successful therapeutic result. Furthermore, molecules hitting more than one biological target exhibit also a safer profile. In this review, we present a comprehensive knowledge of recent research on multitarget synthetic approaches to confront Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s neurodegenerative diseases.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/6/831Alzheimer’s diseaseParkinson’s diseaseHuntington’s diseaseneurodegenerative diseasesmultitarget drugshybrid compounds
spellingShingle Eleftheria-Emmanouela Katsoulaki
Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Dimitra Hadjipavlou-Litina
Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
Pharmaceuticals
Alzheimer’s disease
Parkinson’s disease
Huntington’s disease
neurodegenerative diseases
multitarget drugs
hybrid compounds
title Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
title_full Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
title_fullStr Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
title_full_unstemmed Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
title_short Multitarget Compounds Designed for Alzheimer, Parkinson, and Huntington Neurodegeneration Diseases
title_sort multitarget compounds designed for alzheimer parkinson and huntington neurodegeneration diseases
topic Alzheimer’s disease
Parkinson’s disease
Huntington’s disease
neurodegenerative diseases
multitarget drugs
hybrid compounds
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/6/831
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