Spanish 
Chinese 
Russian 
German 
French 
Japanese 
Portuguese 
Hindi Commentary
Nicotine and Alzheimers Disease: Mechanism for How the Fog of Smoke Increases the Fog of Dementia
Herbert B Allen* and Suresh G JoshiDepartment of Dermatology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Herbert B Allen
Department of Dermatology, Drexel University
College of Medicine, 219 N. Broad St, 4th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107, Philadelphia, USA
Tel: 2157625550
Fax: 2157625570
E-mail: Herbert.Allen@drexelmed.edu
Received date: December 09, 2016; Accepted date: December 23, 2016; Published date: December 26, 2016
Citation: Allen HB, Joshi SG (2016) Nicotine and Alzheimers Disease: Mechanism for How the Fog of Smoke Increases the Fog of Dementia. J Neuroinfect Dis 7:237. doi:10.4172/2314-7326.1000237
Copyright: © 2016 Allen HB, 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.
Abstract
Nicotine has been known to make Alzheimer’s disease worse. We point out a likely mechanism for this occurrence. Spirochetal organisms have been found and cultured from the brains of Alzheimer s patients. These have been shown to make biofilms, and the biofilms have been shown to activate the innate immune system
