Role of medicinal plants against Alzheimer’s disease

Abstract

Neurodegenerative ailments are heterogeneous group of genetic disorders that are indicated by loss of neuronal structure, function and generally lead to neuronal loss. These ailments may result directly from particular neuronal population degeneration or indirectly from changes in glial support cells. These kinds of ailments are characterized by an abnormal proteins accumulation or other biological materials accumulation within or outside the neurons. These aggregations take different structures and result in neurofabrillary tangles in Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s disease, glycogen and polyglucosan bodies in Lafora disease. Alzheimer’s disease is thought to be in responsible of 60% of all mental disorder in moderately aged or older adults1 and influencing in excess of 5 million Americans, a number assessed to increment to 7.7million by 2030.