APP and Alzheimer disease: More importantly, verbascoside has been reported to protect human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells against Aβ-induced cell injury [81], to confer neuroprotection against AD via the relief of endoplasmic reticulum stress in Aβ-exposed cells and APP/PS1 mice [82], and to exert neuroprotective effects in a model of Parkinson’s disease through induction of autophagy [83].