Drugs can slow the progression of Alzheimers disease
Contact: Mary Hardin treatable mhardiniupui.edu 3172747722 Indiana University A drug used to treat symptoms of Alzheimers disease mildtomoderate do little more, it can delay the progression of the disease can be carried out according to a study at Indiana University School of Medicine. The study, published in the June issue of Archives of Neurology, can evaluate research on the change in cognition in patients who have prematurely closed the prescribed treatment with placebo or Exelon (rivastigmine tartrate), a drug for many patients.If Exelon only had an effect on the symptoms of the disease, I would make a rapid decline of knowledge have expected to the level observed was patients in the placebo group after treatment withdrawal, but not the case in this study, said Martin
Farlow, MD, professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine and director of the Alzheimers clinic at the Hospital of the University of Indiana. And what Dr. Farlow, Principal Investigator and main author of the study, and discovered his colleagues? We found that patients who Exelon before withdrawing from the study were significantly less cognitive decline than patients showed placebotreated, suggesting a possible effect on slowing the biological progression of Alzheimers disease.At 26 weeks after cessation of treatment, patients who first used the drug had less cognitive decline than patients who stopped taking the placebo. Exelon is a cholinesterase inhibitor, an agent laboratoryproduced memory and other cognitive functions that affect certain chemical activities to
improve the brain. Acetylcholine is a chemical released by one brain cell to transmit a message to another phone. Once a message is received, the enzymes are separated for reuse.Alzheimerafflicted In the brain, the cells using acetylcholine are damaged or destroyed, which reduces levels of the chemical messenger. cholinesterase inhibition is the treatment most widely studied and best for the symptomatic treatment view more
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