碩士 / 嘉南藥理大學 / 藥學系 / 107 / Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an un-reversible illness of neurons regression, and the most common type of dementia. This illness is an epidemic issue across the world, and it makes a critical impact on an individual, families and the whole society. There are multiple factors contributing to this illness, including but not limited to genetic divergence, life style, and environment. The symptoms of AD include memory loss, personality change, and others that are related to cognitive functioning regression, which also leads to death due to overall physical functioning decline. AD is a complex and multi-factorial illness where mechanism is still not totally uncovered thus far, and no medication can claim to be a cure or to slow down the progression of the illness effectively. Oxidative stress activating neuro system to produce amyloid β peptide is believed to be one of the main factors to cause AD. Therefore, this thesis is taking a preventative approach by reviewing the research of the past 20 years on examining if antioxidants in vitamins play a role in preventing or slowing down the prevalence of AD.
PubMed and Google Scholar sites were used to search research articles for this thesis. The key words for the research were Alzheimer’s disease, antioxidant, vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene, vitamin D, etc. Research done in the past 20 years were included, however any animal related studies were excluded. Among clinical research focused on humans, one hundred sixty-four (164) studies were identified. After removing the repeated studies and reviewing the abstract of each one, fourteen (14) research articles that meet the purpose of this thesis study were chosen to be the target of mega research review analysis.
Through the review vitamins that contain an antioxidant component such as C and E were often used in the research regarding AD. Some research outcomes show that vitamin C or E intake alone respectively or combination of both plays a role of reducing the chance of developing AD. However others show no effect with vitamin C and/or E. Therefore the role of vitamin C or E is inconclusive thus far. Compared to vitamin C and E that are known with an antioxidant component, the relation between vitamin D and AD are getting more and more attention. The result of the articles included in this study shows that people who have deficiency in vitamin D are in higher risk of developing AD. This conclusion is relatively consistent.
In sum, we used to believe that intake of vitamin C and E can have a possible effect of preventing further development of AD because the antioxidant component in those vitamins would reduce the production of amyloid β peptide due to oxidative stress; however the evidences through the clinical trials are not sufficient. On the contrary, vitamin D appears to have potential in preventing or reducing the risk of developing AD.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107CNUP0549006 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | LEE, WEI-SHIUAN, 李濰瑄 |
| Contributors | SHIH,MEI-FEN, 施美份 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 36 |
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