Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease
Date
2022-02
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BRAC University
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease is one kind of a brain disorder which has the capability to destroy a
person’s memory and thinking ability. To treat this disease various types of immunotherapies
are required. This review is basically focused on finding of the immunotherapies that has been
currently used for treating the Alzheimer’s disease. Immunotherapy is a kind of treatment for
a disease to stimulate the immune system. Thus, immunotherapies have become most
prominent to prevent the Alzheimer’s disease. In this literature review it has been shown that
in most of the cases active, passive, tau and amyloid-beta immunotherapies are being used to
prevent the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. To conclude it can be inferred that, this review might
help the reader to know about the immunotherapies of Alzheimer disease however for getting
better treatment in AD new treatment strategies need to be established.
Description
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-54).
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-54).
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy, 2022.
Keywords
Alzheimer disease, Immunotherapy, Tau pathology, Amyloid beta, Neurodegenerative, Dementia
