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Table 1 IDs, intervention, main features, and outcomes of selected trial protocols

From: Anticancer drugs repurposed for Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review

Identifier

Intervention

Duration

Placebo

Estimated enrollment

Age

Diagnosis

MMSE at baseline

Primary outcome

Secondary outcome

Status

Phase I

 NCT03056495

Vorinostat

4 weeks

N

44

≥ 55 to ≤ 90

Mild AD

≥ 22 to ≤ 27

Maximum-tolerated dose

Incidence of treatment emergent AEs

Pharmacokinetics

Pharmacodynamics

Recruiting

 NCT02921477

Bosutinib

1 year

N

64

≥ 45 to ≤ 89

MCI to moderate dementia

Safety, tolerability

Enrolling by invitation

 NCT02061878

Bexarotene

5 days

Y

12

≥ 21 to ≤ 50

Healthy volunteers with the ApoE ε3/ε3 genotype

CSF levels of ApoE and Aβ clearance

Fractional clearance rate of beta-amyloid peptide in CNS

Completed

Phase I–II

 NCT04063124

Dasatinib (+quercetin)

12 weeks

N

5

≥ 65

Clinical diagnosis of AD

Brain penetrance after 12 weeks

CSF-tau, CSF-amyloid beta, CSF-IL-6, CSF-P16, MoCA

Electronic gait mapping under single- and dual-task conditions

Recruiting

Phase II

 NCT04070378

Daratumumab

16 weeks

N

15

≥ 55 to ≤ 85

Mild to moderate AD

≥ 15 to ≤ 26

ADAS-Cog/11

ADAS-Cog/12, MMSE, ADAS-ADL

CDR-SOB, ADCOMS

Recruiting

 NCT02947893

Nilotinib

1 year

Y

42

≥ 50

Mild to moderate AD

≥ 17 to ≤ 24

Safety, tolerability

Pharmacokinetics

Abl inhibition to demonstrate CNS target engagement

Active, not recruiting

 NCT04032626

Lenalidomide

12 months of treatment followed by 6 months of washout. The trial will last 20 months in duration.

Y

30

≥ 50 to ≤ 89

MCI

≥ 22 to ≤ 28

ADAS-Cog

ADCS-ADL

CDR-SOB

MMSE

AEs and SAEs

Change in brain amyloid loads

Change in blood inflammatory markers

Change in neurodegeneration

Recruiting

 NCT01120002

Tamibarotene

Y

50

≥ 55 to ≤ 80

Mild to moderate AD

≥ 10 to ≤ 26

Changes in ADAS-JCog (Japanese version)

MMSE, ADCS-ADL

CIBIC-Plus

Unknown

 NCT01782742

Bexarotene

4 weeks

Y

20

≥ 50 to ≤ 90

Probable AD

≥ 10 to ≤ 20

Change in the composite amyloid burden of the brain according to ApoE genotype

MMSE, ADAS-Cog

NPI, CDR

ADCS-ADL

Serum level change of Aβ42 and Aβ40 (all subjects and ApoE-ε4 noncarriers)

Change in Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (all subjects and ApoE-ε4 noncarriers)

Completed

 2016-000429-38

Pexidartinib

16 weeks

Y

≥ 55 to ≤ 85

Mild to moderate AD

≥ 16 to ≤ 26

Safety and tolerability

Effect on microglia inflammation

Cognitive and functional measures (tests not reported)

Pharmacokinetics (CSF to plasma ratio)

CSFR-1 biomarkers in blood

Prematurely ended

 NCT00976118

Masitinib

24 weeks

Y

34

≥ 50

Mild to moderate AD

≥ 12 to ≤ 26

ADAS-Cog

CIBIC-Plus

CDR

MMSE

Completed

 NCT01094340

Thalidomide

24 weeks

Y

20

≥ 50 to ≤ 90

Probable AD

≥ 12 to ≤ 26

Improve cognition

Improve cognition

Unknown

Phase II/III

 NCT01872598 (2010-021218-50)

Masitinib

Minimum of 6 months

Y

721

≥ 50

Diagnosis of AD

≥ 12 to ≤ 25

ADAS-Cog

ADCS-ADL

MMSE, CIBIC-Plus

Completed