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Drugs For Alzheimer S Disease - Articles
New Class of Compounds Discovered for Potential Alzheimer’s Disease Drug
by
Bob DeMarco
Posted
Wed 12 Aug 2009 10:54pm
A new class of molecules capable of blocking the formation of specific protein clumps that are believed to contribute to the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients has been discovered by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. By assaying close to 300,000 compounds, they have identified drug-like inhibitors of AD
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New Class of Compounds Discovered for Potential Alzheimer’s Disease Drug
by
Bob DeMarco
Posted
Tue 11 Aug 2009 9:51am
A new class of molecules capable of blocking the formation of specific protein clumps that are believed to contribute to the dementia of Alzheimer’s disease (AD..., PhD, Director of Drug Discovery at Penn’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR); Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, and John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, CNDR Co-Directors
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Penn Study Gives Hope for New Class of Alzheimer’s Disease Drugs
by
Ed H.
Posted
Tue 19 Oct 2010 5:37pm
Finding a drug that can cross the blood-brain barrier is the bane of drug development for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders of the brain. A new Penn study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found and tested in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease a class of drug that is able to enter the brain, where
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Arthritis Drug Studies Show Promise for Alzheimer’s Disease
by
Carol Bradley Bursack
Posted
Thu 14 May 2009 4:31pm
on dailymail.co.uk titled, "New hope for Alzheimer's sufferers after new treatment 'restores memory in minutes,'" explains a nearly magical response by a person with Alzheimer's disease, to an injection of Enbrel, a TNF (tumor necrosis factor) drug used for rheumatoid arthritis. The man with Alzheimer's hadn't recognized his wife in months. Minutes after doctors injected
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Old Drug Offers New Hope for Alzheimer’s Disease
by
Carol Bradley Bursack
Posted
Thu 14 May 2009 4:31pm
Researchers around the world are working feverishly to develop a drug that will prevent or cure Alzheimer' s. There' s a lot of pressure to do so, and only some of the pressure is a financial windfall for the company who develops the first drug with one of these effects.
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Mouse Study Shows Effect of Blood Pressure Drug on Alzheimer's Disease
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Medline Plus
Posted
Mon 15 Nov 2010 6:45pm
of Alzheimers disease, according to a new
study by researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National
Institutes of Health. The study found that the drug... of the Journal
of Alzheimers Disease.
Mark P. Mattson, Ph.D., chief of NIA's Laboratory of Neurosciences in Baltimore,
directed the research, in collaboration with colleagues at Konkuk
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