E-ISSN: 2314-7326
P-ISSN: 2314-7334

Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases
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Nicotine and Alzheimers Disease: Mechanism for How the Fog of Smoke Increases the Fog of Dementia

Herbert B Allen* and Suresh G Joshi

Department 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

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