Sunday, February 9, 2020

The Potential of the Novel NAD+ Supplementing Agent, SNH6, as a Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Friedreich’s Ataxia

Shannon Chiang, Danuta S. Kalinowski, Mahendiran Dharmasivam, Nady Braidy, Des R. Richardson, Michael L.-H. Huang, Pharmacological Research, 2020, 104680, doi:10.1016/j.phrs.2020.104680

SNH6 is an innovative therapeutic with marked pharmacological efficacy, which successfully enhanced cardiac NAD+ and nuclear Sirt1 activity and reduced cardiac iron-loading in MCK KO mice. No other pharmaceutical yet designed exhibits both these effective pharmacological properties.