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ArticleChinese medicine2011

Drug discovery from Chinese medicine against neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and vascular dementia.

Yuen-Shan Ho, Kwok-Fai So, Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang

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Article in Chinese medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04249869 (The Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04249869 phase1 / phase2unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (VGH-AD1) on Patients With Alzheimer's Disease: A Double-blinded Randomized Placebo-controlled Cross-over Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorTaipei Veterans General Hospital, TaiwanRan2020 to 2020Enrolled28ConditionsAlzheimer DiseaseArmsVGH-AD1
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yuen-Shan HoLaboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China. janiceys@hku.hk.
Kwok-Fai So
Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are two major diseases associated with dementia, which is common among the elderly. While the etiology of dementia is multi-factorial and complex, neurodegeneration may be the major cause of these two diseases. Effective drugs for treating dementia are still to be discovered. Current western pharmacological approaches against neurodegeneration in dementia develop symptom-relieving and disease-modifying drugs. Current integrative and holistic approaches of Chinese medicine to discovering drugs for neurodegeneration in dementia include (1) single molecules from the herbs, (2) standardized extracts from a single herb, and (3) herbal formula with definite composition. This article not only reviews the concept of dementia in western medicine and Chinese medicine but also evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches.

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PMCPMC3097009

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