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The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame?

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The clinical recognition of a form of dementia closely resembling Alzheimer's disease dates from around 1800. The role of analgesics derived from coal-tar in the spread of the pandemic is traced in terms of the introduction of phenacetin (PN) in 1887; its nephrotoxicity;...

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Autor principal: Jones, Günther Robert Norman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Science Publishers 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350947
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1871528112666131219163405