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Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science

Feeding for Patients with Neurodegenerative Disoders as a Focus on Niemann Type C Pick Disease (Npd)

  • Open or Close Copetti Santos D1* and Santos Gonçalves N2

    1 Department of Biological Sciences-biochemistry, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Ragamuffin, Brazil

    2 Student of the medicine course of the Southern Institute of Passo Fund, Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil

    *Corresponding author: Daniela Copetti Santos, Department of Biological Sciences-biochemistry, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Ragamuffin, Brazil

Submission: April 24, 2018; Published: June 01, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/NTNF.2018.01.000535

ISSN 2640-9208
Volume2 Issue2

Abstract

The brain has a remarkable capacity for plasticity, an aptitude that ironically contrasts with the limited therapeutic approaches that would reduce the consequences of brain insults. Although a large amount of clinical trials have been performed to test the efficacy of various pharmacological compounds in minimizing the burden of neurological disorders, the results of many of these trials have been unsuccessful.

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