Progress of finding latent therapeutic activity of vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease
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2019-05Publisher
Brac UniversityAuthor
Hassan, Md. MuhtazMetadata
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Alzheimer’s disease is one of leading diseases which provokes different internal
physiological conditions that ease deterioration of normal body mechanism among people
over 60 years of age. The proper pathophysiology of this disease is still undiscovered. There
are two neuropathological hallmarks for this deadliest disease, among them one is amyloid-β
and another is senile plaque deposition which plays extracellular role, on the other side
neurofibrillary tangles which contain hyperphosphorylated tau protein dominate intracellular
portion. A variety of medicinal approaches have been experimented targeting amyloid-β
among them the most innovative approaches were reducing amyloid-β from the brain by
active and passive vaccination. Since the first approach, a number of vaccines have been
stopped during clinical trials and some are still under investigation. Different co-relating
possibilities are merging together to initiate a proper medicinal pathway along with the
invention of the specific pathophysiology of this disease.