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| Title |
Herbal therapy: a new pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, October 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/alzrt54 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jinzhou Tian, Jing Shi, Xuekai Zhang, Yongyan Wang |
| Abstract |
It has been a clinical challenge to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the present commentary we discuss whether herbal therapy could be a novel treatment method for AD on the basis of results from clinical trials, and discuss the implications for potential therapy for AD pathophysiology. There is evidence to suggest that single herbs or herbal formulations may offer certain complementary cognitive benefits to the approved drugs. The current evidence supporting their use alone, however, is inconclusive or inadequate owing to many methodological limitations. Herbal mixtures may have advantages with multiple target regulation compared with the single-target antagonist in the view of traditional Chinese medicine. Several clinical trials using herbal mixtures are being conducted in China and will hopefully show promising results for treating AD in the near future. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 71 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 15% |
| Unknown | 27 | 38% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 11 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 7% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 15% |
| Unknown | 28 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2016.
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#19,944,994
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Outputs from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#1,380
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#96,699
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#2
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