Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by cognitive decline associated, specifically, with the degeneration of cholinergic neurons [1]. Although the etiology of the disease remains elusive, with several pathophysiological mechanisms contributing to disease progression, two main pathological hallmarks are well described, namely the presence of 1) neurofibrillary...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with early prominent death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, concurrently with Lewys body formation, iron accumulation, oxidative stress and ferroptosis[1–3]. Since there is no effective therapy capable of stopping/delaying disease progression, phenolic acids such as hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids (HCA and...
Background: Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a multifactorial, complex and progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta [1,2]. Several pathophysiological mechanisms are involved in PD, namely Lewy bodies formation, mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and iron accumulation within the brain [3]. Iron tr...