A type of drug that’s often prescribed soon after you’re diagnosed is called a cholinesterase inhibitor. While these drugs don’t change the course of your disease, they may help with ...

Cholinesterase inhibitors help boost the amount of acetylcholine you have so more messages get through. Scientists think these Alzheimer’s drugs prevent acetylcholine from breaking down.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has found that anti-cholinesterase drugs which are used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease is not very effective in ...

We lack a randomized, controlled comparison of the cholinesterase inhibitors ... rivastigmine should be least often associated with drug interactions, followed by galantamine and donepezil.

Effectiveness of "reactivator" therapy was followed by serial cholinesterase assays ... enzymes a profound and prolonged effect of this drug would be expected, and was actually seen in the ...

There's concern that if someone is taking both types of drugs -- cholinesterase inhibitors and anticholinergic medications -- they will antagonize each other, and neither will work." In clinical ...

Cholinesterase inhibitors (donepezil [multiple brands], galantamine [Razadyne, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc], rivastigmine [Excelon, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation]) are commonly used to ...

The only difference between drug and placebo groups that cannot be attributed to chance alone seems to be whole brain atrophy. In one of the galantamine trials (Gal-INT-11), patients on the ...

Cholinesterase inhibitors are a group of drugs recommended for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, but their effects on cognition have been debated and few studies have investigated their long-term ...

“We found that use of a cholinesterase inhibitor drug was significantly associated with syncope, bradycardia, permanent pacemaker insertion, and hip fracture,” Gill remarks. These findings ...

Ortho-7 may be a more efficient reactivator than HI-6. Our work supports the growing body of evidence that the efficacy of the drugs is due to the differential bindings of the oximes with AChE and ...