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Title:
Emerging drugs and targets for Alzheimer's disease
Series:
RSC drug discovery series, no. 2-3

RSC drug discovery series ; 2.

RSC drug discovery series ; 3.
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2010
Physical Description:
v. <2> : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781849730457

9781849730631

9781849730648
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Summary

Summary

A comprehensive 2-volume complete set that collects some of the most promising examples of new drugs currently under pharmaceutical development that will reach the Alzheimer's drug market over the next few years as disease-modifying therapeutics.


Author Notes

Ana Martinez obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid before becoming a researcher at the Medicinal Chemistry Institute of the Spanish National Council for Research (CSIC). Since 1995, her interests have focused on neurodegenerative disorders and she has led numerous research projects on the medicinal chemistry and rational drug design with the aim of finding new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. In February 2002, she joined NeuroPharma (now NOSCIRA) as R&D Director where she led projects from the discovery of potential new therapies to the final proof of concept in animal models. In February 2008, she returned to her academic position at the Medicinal Chemistry Institute (CSIC) leading several projects on neurodegenerative disease therapies and acting as an external scientific advisor to a number of pharmaceutical companies. Her main areas of research currently involve GSK-3 inhibitors and dual binding site acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. She has authored over a hundred and fifty scientific publications and has more than twenty active patents in the field.


Table of Contents

Volume 1 Beta-Amyloid as target
Chapter 1 The amyloid hypothesis of AD and prospects for therapeutics
Chapter 2 Targeting Alzheimer's ?-Secretase: Genetic and Chemical Modulation
Chapter 3 Cholesterol and AD: the molecules, the targets
Chapter 4 The Bimodal Features of Butyrylcholinesterase in Cholinergic Neurotransmission and Amyloid Suppression
Chapter 5 Scyllo-inositol, a potential therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 6 Immunotherapeutic strategies toward treatment of AD
Tau protein as target
Chapter 7 Alzheimer Neurofibrillary Degeneration: Pivotal Role and Therapeutic Targets
Chapter 8 Multiple roles of glycogen synthase kinase-3 in AD
Chapter 9 Tau protein kinases inhibitors: from the bench to the clinical trials
Chapter 10 Activating PP2A as a therapeutic intervention strategy in AD
Chapter 11 Rationale for tau aggregation inhibitor therapy in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies
Glucose Metabolism as target
Chapter 12 Insulin Insulin Resistance and neurodegeneration: Type 2 versus type 3 diabetes mellitus
Chapter 13 Insulin-like Growth Factor I as a disease-modifying therapy in Alzheimer´s disease
Chapter 14 Ketone bodies as a therapeutic for Alzheimer´s disease
Volume 2 Neuronal Plasticity as target
Chapter 15 Regeneration of Degenerated Brain: A Promising Therapeutic Target
Chapter 16 Promoting synaptic resilience in AD patients through PDE inhibition
Chapter 17 A new generation of non invasive NGF-based therapies for Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 18 Possible clinical applications of stem cell strategies in AD therapies
Neuronal protection as target
Chapter 19 Targeting Oxidative Mechanisms in Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 20 Davunetide (NAP) Pharmacology: Neuroprotection and tau
Chapter 21 Targeting NF- B inflammatory and pro-survival signaling in AD
Chapter 22 PPAR in Alzheimers disease
Miscellaneous targets and strategies
Chapter 23 Serotonin 5-HT4 receptors as pharmacological targets for the treatment of Alzheimer´s disease
Chapter 24 Liver X Receptors as potential therapeutic target for AD
Chapter 25 Discovery of memoquin, a multi-target-directed ligand for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
Chapter 26 RNA interference of genes related to AD B. Nawrot
Chapter 27 Medicinal plants, phytochemicals and Alzheimer's DiseaseD. Kennedy