Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimer's Disease -

Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimer's Disease

Volume 1: Beta-Amyloid

Ana Martinez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
342 Seiten
2010
Royal Society of Chemistry (Verlag)
978-1-84973-063-1 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
This volume describes the discovery and development history of the most promising drugs now in development for combating Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly. A recent study from the Bloomberg School of Public Health recently estimated that over 26 million people were living with the disease in 2006 and that the global prevalence of the disease will grow to 106 million by 2050. By that time, 43 per cent of those living with the disease will need high-level care, equivalent to that of a nursing home. However, even if modest advances in preventing or delaying the disease's progression were made, it could have a huge impact on global public health. According to this study, interventions that could delay the onset of the disease by as little as one year would reduce the prevalence of the disease by 12 million fewer cases in 2050. These figures reinforce how important it is to find an effective intervention for Alzheimer's disease.


Emerging Drugs and Targets for Alzheimer's Disease collects some of the most outstanding examples of new drugs currently under pharmaceutical development or new targets in the validation process that will reach the Alzheimer's drug market over the next few years as disease modifying drugs. Written by a team of distinguished experts, these volumes are an essential resource for scientists in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and academics working in the neurosciences field.

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.

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

Reihe/Serie Drug Discovery ; Volume 2
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
ISBN-10 1-84973-063-6 / 1849730636
ISBN-13 978-1-84973-063-1 / 9781849730631
Zustand Neuware
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