Drug cocktail for AD

January 15, 2016

Patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) will most likely be treated with what UCL professor of neuroscience John Hardy called a “cocktail of disease modifying drugs”, at the annual University College London School of Pharmacy lecture recently. The drugs will contribute to a slowing of the disease as opposed to a reversal as they tackle the three mechanisms of pathology. The first is the build up of amyloid plaques; second is a recently discovered set of genes which determine how the brain breaks down amyloid; third is a set of genes involved in brain cholesterol.

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Drug cocktail for AD

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