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.
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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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