Recent Advances in Alzheimer Research

Author(s): Donna M. Wilcock and Elizabeth Head

DOI: 10.2174/9781681081380115010012

The Role of Inflammatory Processes in the Pathophysiology of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease

Pp: 173-188 (16)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

Down syndrome is the most frequent cause of cognitive dysfunction that results from the triplication of chromosome 21. Along with a number of developmental disabilities that occur in early childhood, Down syndrome is also associated with age-related Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology, leading to 50-70% of persons with Down syndrome showing dementia by 6th to 7th decade of life. Recent evidence has strongly implicated inflammatory processes in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. However, little is known about the genetic impact of Down syndrome on neuroinflammation. Accordingly, the central aim of this chapter is to explicate our current knowledge of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease and to discern how it may be extrapolated to understand better the inflammatory processes that affect Down syndrome neuropathology.

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