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Potential Role of Nanoparticles in Treating the Accumulation of Amyloid-Beta Peptide in Alzheimer’s Patients

The disorder of Alzheimer’s is marked by progressive pathophysiological neurodegeneration. The amino acid peptides in the amyloid plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are known as amyloid-beta (Aβ). Current treatments are not curative, and the effects associated with A...

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Autor principal: Abbas, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8036916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801619
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13071051
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description The disorder of Alzheimer’s is marked by progressive pathophysiological neurodegeneration. The amino acid peptides in the amyloid plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are known as amyloid-beta (Aβ). Current treatments are not curative, and the effects associated with AD are reduced. Improving treatment results involved the targeting of drugs at optimum therapeutic concentration. Nanotechnology is seen as an unconventional, modern technology that plays a key role in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Using nanoparticles, molecular detection, effective drug targeting, and their combination offer high sensitivity. The aim of this review is to shed light on the function and successful role of nanoparticles to resolve Aβ aggregation and thus to help cure Alzheimer’s disease. The analysis divides these nanoparticles into three categories: polymer, lipid, and gold nanoparticles. A thorough comparison was then made between the nanoparticles, which are used according to their role, properties, and size in the procedure. The nanoparticles can prevent the accumulation of Aβ during the efficient delivery of the drug to the cells to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Furthermore, this comparison demonstrated the ability of these nanoparticles to deal efficiently with Alzheimer’s disease. The role of these nanoparticles varied from delivering the drug to brain cells to dealing with the disease-causing peptide.
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spelling pubmed-80369162021-04-12 Potential Role of Nanoparticles in Treating the Accumulation of Amyloid-Beta Peptide in Alzheimer’s Patients Abbas, Mohamed Polymers (Basel) Review The disorder of Alzheimer’s is marked by progressive pathophysiological neurodegeneration. The amino acid peptides in the amyloid plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are known as amyloid-beta (Aβ). Current treatments are not curative, and the effects associated with AD are reduced. Improving treatment results involved the targeting of drugs at optimum therapeutic concentration. Nanotechnology is seen as an unconventional, modern technology that plays a key role in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Using nanoparticles, molecular detection, effective drug targeting, and their combination offer high sensitivity. The aim of this review is to shed light on the function and successful role of nanoparticles to resolve Aβ aggregation and thus to help cure Alzheimer’s disease. The analysis divides these nanoparticles into three categories: polymer, lipid, and gold nanoparticles. A thorough comparison was then made between the nanoparticles, which are used according to their role, properties, and size in the procedure. The nanoparticles can prevent the accumulation of Aβ during the efficient delivery of the drug to the cells to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Furthermore, this comparison demonstrated the ability of these nanoparticles to deal efficiently with Alzheimer’s disease. The role of these nanoparticles varied from delivering the drug to brain cells to dealing with the disease-causing peptide. MDPI 2021-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8036916/ /pubmed/33801619 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13071051 Text en © 2021 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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title_short Potential Role of Nanoparticles in Treating the Accumulation of Amyloid-Beta Peptide in Alzheimer’s Patients
title_sort potential role of nanoparticles in treating the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptide in alzheimer’s patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8036916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801619
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13071051
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