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The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether oral resveratrol, quercetin, and curcumin (RQC) can prevent the accumulation of retinal amyloid-β and/or cognitive decline over 24 months in adults aged 50-90 with Stage 1 or 2 Alzheimer's disease as described in FDA-2013-D-0077. The trial will also evaluate the safety and tolerability of RQC. Curcumin, which binds to amyloid-β, will act as a fluorescent label to identify retinal amyloid-β in vivo using optical coherence tomography (OCT)-autofluorescence imaging. The investigators will longitudinally evaluate the effect of RQC on retinal amyloid-β load cognitive outcomes including the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SB) and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and potential microvascular biomarkers. The investigators will also evaluate associations between retinal amyloid-β and progression to early Alzheimer's disease (mild cognitive impairment). The investigators will compare RQC, taken daily for 24 months, with curcumin alone, taken only during the 7 days preceding each of the six study visits to see if RQC can prevent (or reduce) amyloid-β and prevent the onset of mild cognitive impairment.

Prolonged isolated thrombocytopenia (PIT) that is refractory to conventional treatments has remained a critical complication after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation since decades years ago. Recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO) is the main therapy in clinical practice, but remains low efficiency for PIT. Demethylating drugs have shown thier potential in high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acte myeloid leukemia (AML). In addition, decitabine has demonstrated its efficacy of over 70% for response rate in treatment for PIT in early clinical trials with elusive mechanism. Preliminary experiments revealed that PIT was associated with abnormality of oxidation microenvironment, and N-Acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) was the most commonly used antioxidant. Therefore, the investigators have been wondering whether Azacitidine in combination with NAC could improve PIT post HSCT and explore the possible mechanism of it.

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of resveratrol, quercetin, and curcumin in combination (RQC) over 2 years in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).