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- Title
A Botanical Approach to Alzheimer's Disease.
- Authors
Abascal, Kathy; Yarnell, Eric
- Abstract
This article focuses on Alzheimer's disease and its treatment. Beginning its insidious process as early as the fourth decade of life, Alzheimer's disease proceeds along a path of dementia marked by progressive loss of memory accompanied by disorientation, depression, and declining control of bodily functions. Pathologically, the chief features of Alzheimer's disease are the deposition of beta-amyloid protein within and in proximity to cerebral vessels, and plaques consisting of glial cells, nerve-cell axons or neurites, and glial cells around an amyloid core, as well as tangles of intraccilular filaments of nerve cells. It is important to keep in mind that analyses of the clinical data on ginkgo for Alzheimer's disease also question the efficacy of drugs approved for treating the disease.
- Subjects
ALZHEIMER'S disease; DRUG efficacy; NEUROGLIA; AMYLOID beta-protein; PATHOLOGY; BRAIN diseases
- Publication
Natural Pharmacy, 2004, Vol 8, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1089-4853
- Publication type
Article