
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 4(1)
Published: Aug. 23, 2019
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative characterized by progressive memory loss along with neuropsychiatric symptoms and decline in activities of daily life. Its main pathological features are cerebral atrophy, amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles the brains patients. There various descriptive hypotheses regarding causes AD, including cholinergic hypothesis, tau propagation mitochondrial cascade calcium homeostasis neurovascular inflammatory metal ion lymphatic system hypothesis. However, ultimate etiology AD remains obscure. In this review, we discuss related clinical trials. Wealthy puzzles lessons have made it possible to develop explanatory theories identify potential strategies for therapeutic interventions AD. The combination hypometabolism autophagy deficiency likely be causative factor We further propose that fluoxetine, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, has treat
Language: Английский