Chapter 4, Problem 64RE

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The reason behind doctors not want to just completely inhibit β-secretase in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease is to be interpretated.

Concept Introduction:

Alzheimer disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which starts slowly and gets worse with the passage of time. Alzheimer affected person suffer from memory loss, and in later stages it remove long-held memories. This disease is characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, resulting in neuronal dysfunction and cell death. Amyloid is characterized by general term for protein fragments that the body produces normally. Amyloid plaques are present between nerve cells (neurons) in the brain