{"title":"Aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease: An update","authors":"Thaarvena Retinasamy, M. Shaikh","doi":"10.31117/neuroscirn.v4i2.81","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The US FDA approved Aducanumab in June 2021 as the first Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug under its accelerated approval pathway. It has given some hope to patients suffering from AD around the world. Aducanumab is an antibody that targets one of the well-known key culprits of this disease, known as amyloid-beta (Aβ). The journey of Aducanumab was bumpy, and there are controversies around the rapid approval of this drug AD treatment. This article highlights the potential of Aducanumab in AD, its mode of action and controversies around it.","PeriodicalId":36108,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research Notes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Neuroscience Research Notes","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31117/neuroscirn.v4i2.81","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Neuroscience","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The US FDA approved Aducanumab in June 2021 as the first Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug under its accelerated approval pathway. It has given some hope to patients suffering from AD around the world. Aducanumab is an antibody that targets one of the well-known key culprits of this disease, known as amyloid-beta (Aβ). The journey of Aducanumab was bumpy, and there are controversies around the rapid approval of this drug AD treatment. This article highlights the potential of Aducanumab in AD, its mode of action and controversies around it.
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