Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease

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2022-02

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BRAC University

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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.

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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.

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Alzheimer disease, Immunotherapy, Tau pathology, Amyloid beta, Neurodegenerative, Dementia

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