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Traditional Medicine for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Author(s) -

Chun Fu Wu,

Wenxia Zhou,

Chuthamanee Suthisisang,

Jingyu Yang

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.552

H-Index - 90

eISSN - 1741-4288

pISSN - 1741-427X

DOI - 10.1155/2014/169821

Subject(s) - tolerability , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , medicine , traditional chinese medicine , disease , neurodegeneration , clinical efficacy , alternative medicine , adverse effect , pharmacology , pathology

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), are one of leading causes of death all over the world. Traditional medicine (TM), especially traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), usually having good clinical tolerability, is applied to treat NDD in China based on TCM or modern pharmacological theories. This issue on TM for treatment of NDD compiles 12 exciting manuscripts, most of which reported the efficacy and possible mechanisms of action of TM or active constituents on AD, PD, and ALS both in clinical and experimental levels.

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