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Book SynopsisAlzheimer'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.
Table of ContentsBeta-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
