Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical and Biological Engineering 2017 (BBE 2017)

Targeted Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease: An Overview

Authors
Yong SUN, Ying-ju XIU, Ying XING
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Yong SUN
Available Online May 2017.
DOI
10.2991/bbe-17.2017.77How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Alzheimers' disease, Targeted, Therapies, Review.
Abstract

Dementia is the most common onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The main neuropathological characteristics of AD are extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular accumulation of hyperphosphorylated Tau protein. Because of the complexity of the pathogenesis, the most treatment options are not effective at present. Conventional treatmentstrategies, acety-lcholinesterase inhibitors and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists, are only able to alleviate the symptoms of AD. The research on AD therapy has had limited success .Consequently, targeted therapy will become potential ways to treat Alzheimer's disease in the future. This paper makes a brief review on this aspect.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical and Biological Engineering 2017 (BBE 2017)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
May 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-362-3
ISSN
2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/bbe-17.2017.77How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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