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Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's Disease

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Series: Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Book 2

Medical ReferenceChemistry

ISBN10: 364209354X
ISBN13: 9783642093548
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 30 2010
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that robs the minds of our elderly population. Approximately one in every eight adults over the age of 65 and nearly half of those over 85 are afflicted with this disease. The aging population in developed societies will impose an ever increasing socioeconomic threat in the future. Current medicines for AD patients are mainly symptomatic treatments and a huge unmet medical need exists to slow the progression of this disease. A great deal of research has been dedicated to understanding the pathogenesis of AD from which comes many ideas for intervening with its progression. Some of these ideas have been fast-tracked to clinical trials due to the availability of medicines with proven clinical efficacies for other diseases (e.g. atorvastatin, simvastatin, rosiglitazone and clioquinol) while others represent novel chemical entities (e.g. glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibitors).

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