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Plosaracetam

pharmaceutical compound

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ133270328
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Plosaracetam (INNTooltip International Nonproprietary Name; developmental code names ABBV-552, SDI-118) is a synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A) ligand which is under development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other cognition disorders. In contrast to earlier SV2A ligands like levetiracetam and brivaracetam, polsaracetam does not have anticonvulsant activity and instead shows pro-cognitive effects. The drug is being developed by UCB Biopharma and AbbVie. As of October 2024, it is in phase 2 clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease and phase 1 trials for cognition disorders.

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This entry incorporates text from Plosaracetam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.