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HT-0712 (betamilast) is a PDE4 inhibitor purpose-engineered to be a memory drug. Designed across Inflazyme, Helicon and Dart NeuroScience, it targets the CREB memory pathway with a wider therapeutic window than the notoriously emetic rolipram. In animals it selectively boosts long-term (not short-term) memory in normal and aged mice, and it reached Phase 2 testing in age-associated memory impairment, making it the most deliberately memory-focused candidate in the PDE4 class.
Rolipram (ZK 62711) is the prototypical PDE4 inhibitor and the reference compound for the entire class. Developed by Schering as an antidepressant in the 1980s, it was abandoned over severe emesis but went on to become the single most-studied molecule in the cAMP/CREB-enhances-memory literature. It reliably converts early- to late-long-term potentiation and rescues memory across Alzheimer, aging and Rubinstein-Taybi models, making it the yardstick every newer PDE4 memory drug is measured against.