LONDON - The wife claims that her husband has returned just as before, his son said he had never seen such a transformation is what happened to an English patient suffering from dementia and treated with a drug from Etanercep name, commonly used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The octogenarian ladies (among other doctor and suffering from a mild form of disease), after being subjected to injections of the drug in the spinal cord, seems to have recovered as if by magic, and within ten minutes, the memory lost. The discovery, sensational as random, it's over the publication the Journal of neuroinflammation, "but now the medical and scientific community is uncertain about the overall efficiency of the results, between skepticism and enthusiasm.
THE EXPERT - The first clue that calls for caution - as pointed out by Professor Stephen Hood, dean of the Faculty of Psychology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele - is the fact that this is an individual case, So when the striking element may play a role decisive, and that the disease is in the initial phase, which is typical of a progressive decline in memory capacity with intervals of initial fluctuations (if that were to be too frequent and durable cast doubt on the diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia). In addition, the BBC article reporting the news says nothing about the duration of regained memory and this data is crucial. 'It just still - adds Professor Hood - examine this line of research began for another some time ago, in an attempt to combat the disease by treating the inflammatory aspects of Alzheimer's, reaction to turn the degenerative process. This address was ultimately disappointing, but that does not mean it is not worth insisting and any road, about a disease so serious, it should be covered. " The
ETANERCEP - This medication is used because its part of rheumatoid arthritis, bone disorder so far treated with anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive agents, and apparently also act on the so-called tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), which chitochina plays an important role in inflammatory processes, but their overproduction may damage brain cells ..
ALZHEIMER - Alzheimer's disease is a progressive debilitating dementia in the world are 26.6 million people who suffer from it (as estimated by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore) and is the most common cause of chronic cognitive impairment.
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