Development of Phenothiazine-Based Theranostic Compounds That Act Both as Inhibitors of β-Amyloid Aggregation and as Imaging Probes for Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease

= 7.5 nM) and an excellent targeting ability for Aβ plaques in slices of brain and retina tissue from double transgenic mice. These compounds are also found to effectively prevent Aβ fibril formation and disaggregate preformed Aβ fibrils, showing a promising potential as theranostic agents for the diagnosis and therapy of AD.