Agent for preventing and/or treating neurodegenerative diseases

Abstract

The problems to be solved by the present invention are to provide a novel agent for preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the agent for preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease. The problems are solved by providing an agent for preventing and/or treating a neurodegenerative disease, the agent comprising as an active ingredient an extract of Momordica charantia var. pavel, and preferably the agent is for use in treatment or prevention of a disease selected from Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome, tauopathy (for example, argyrophilic grain dementia, senile dementia of neurofibrillary tangle type, progressive supranuclear palsy, degeneration of cerebral cortex or Pick disease), and dementia with lewy bodies.

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