Acta Scientific Pharmacology

Opinion Volume 3 Issue 4

Aducanumab, an FDA Approved Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease

Suman Chowdhury*

Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, Neuroscience, Rutgers University, USA

*Corresponding Author: Suman Chowdhury, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, Neuroscience, Rutgers University, USA.

Received: February 09, 2022 Published: March 30, 2022

Preface

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive and most common cause of dementia that destroys memory and thinking skill, it remains a global health concern with ever aging population. Discovered by Alois Alzheimer’s in 1906 [1], AD have been identified in 43.8 million people worlds wide [2]. The pathological hallmarks of AD are intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), extracellular deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides as ‘‘senile’’ β-amyloid plaques and decrease in neuronal cells.

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Citation

Citation: Suman Chowdhury. “Aducanumab, an FDA Approved Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease". Acta Scientific Pharmacology 3.4 (2022): 26-28.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Suman Chowdhury. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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