Chemical Modulators of Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Disease
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- Synopsis
- This book is a neurochemistry-based companion for Protein Misfolding and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Targets, an Elsevier title by the same author publishing in December 2014. While the first book focuses on biology and molecular targets, this companion book describes how these targets are regulated by small molecules and disease-modifying compounds. The book begins with a brief introduction to how key proteins become dysfunctional, and each subsequent chapter describes major disease mechanisms in Alzheimer’s and other tauopathies. Properties and development status of these molecular targets and disease mechanisms are thoroughly described, as are small molecule effectors of autophagy and dis-aggregating agents. Written to provide comprehensive coverage of neurodegenerative disease-modifying compoundsProvides discipline-specific chapters that cover medicinal chemistry and clinical applicationsProvides an overview of more than 200 chemical classes and lead compounds, acting on selected molecular targets that are of relevance to any neurodegenerative disorderCoverage of misfolding diseases, chaperone proteins, ubiquitination and autophagy/oncology makes this book suitable for structural neurochemists, chemists, biologists, non-CNS scientists, and scientists interested in drug discovery
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 260 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780128019597
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780128019443, 9780128019443
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Science
- Date of Addition:
- 06/25/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Medicine
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.