Emerging drugs and targets for Alzheimer's disease. Beta-amyloid, tau protein and glucose metabolism / Volume 1, (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Ana Martinez.
• Other Names: Martínez, Ana, 1961-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (318 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.831061; SCIENCE / Chemistry / Clinical; Alzheimer's disease -- Chemotherapy; Amyloid beta-protein; Drug targeting; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia; MEDICAL -- Neurology; Alzheimer's disease -- Chemotherapy; Amyloid beta-protein; Drug targeting; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781849731065; 1849731063
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