title: Flavonoids as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
abstract: Flavonoids are new promising potential natural compounds for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). Actually most promising drugs for symptomatic treatment of AD are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEI). Flavonoids with AChE inhibitory activity and due to their well known antioxidant activity could be new multipotent drugs for AD treatment. This work focuses on natural and synthetic flavonoids inhibitors of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Over, all this review refers to 128 flavonoids, which are classified in chemical structure, and summarizes 64 references.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Navarra, Irunlarrea s/n, 31008 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. iuriartep@unav.es
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Uriarte-Pueyo
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Calvo
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000188:drug therapy; D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D002800:Cholinesterase Inhibitors; D005419:Flavonoids