Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Editorial

Can the Failure of Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials be Stepping Stones to Ultimate Success: Is the Amyloid Hypothesis Discredited by Animal Models

Kumar Sambamurti^1*, Padmaraju Vasudevaraju¹, Jacob Mintzer¹, David Bachman¹, Charlotte Granholm¹, Nigel Greig², Debomoy Lahiri³ and Miguel Pappolla¹

¹Department of Neurosciences and the Center on Aging, Medical University of South Carolina, USA

²Laboratory of Neurosciences, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA

³Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Indiana University, USA

Corresponding Author:

Kumar Sambamurti
Department of Neurosciences and the Center on Aging
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
E-mail:sambak@musc.edu

Received date: April 21, 2012; Accepted date: April 23, 2012; Published date: April 25, 2012

Citation: Sambamurti K, Vasudevaraju P, Mintzer J, Bachman D, Granholm C, et al. (2012) Can the Failure of Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials be Stepping Stones to Ultimate Success: Is the Amyloid Hypothesis Discredited by Animal Models. J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2:e115. doi:10.4172/2161-0460.1000e115

Copyright: © 2012 Sambamurti K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.