[CAS NO. 364-98-7]  Diazoxide

Diazoxide is beneficial on the improvement in cognitive tasks, reduction of anxiety, decrease in the accumulation of amyloid-beta oligomers and hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins. Diazoxide may also exerts neuroprotective effects independently of K+ channel activation by decreasing neuronal excitability and activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors or by increasing currents trough α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors. Diazoxide-treated animals show a decrease in disease severity a few days after the first clinical signs are observed, corresponding to the acute inflammatory phase of the disease. Daily oral administration of diazoxide in EAE mice during the effector phase of the disease reduces the severity of the clinical signs without any apparent adverse effect. Diazoxide decreases demyelination and axonal loss, reduces tissue damage, inhibits microglial/macrophage and astrocytic activation and preserves neuron integrity. No effects are observed on the number of B and T lymphocytes infiltrating the spinal cord.