Translational Medicine in CNS Drug Development

Translational Medicine in CNS Drug Development
Author: George G. Nomikos
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128031646

Translational Medicine in CNS Drug Development, Volume 29, is the first book of its kind to offer a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in translational medicine and biomarker techniques. With extensive coverage on all aspects of biomarkers and personalized medicine, and numerous chapters devoted to the best strategies for developing drugs that target specific disorders, this book presents an essential reference for researchers in neuroscience and pharmacology who need the most up-to-date techniques for the successful development of drugs to treat central nervous system disorders. Despite increases in the number of individuals suffering from CNS-related disorders, the development and approval of drugs for their treatment have been hampered by inefficiencies in advancing compounds from preclinical discovery to the clinic. However, in the past decades, game-changing strides have been made in our understanding of the pathophysiology of CNS disorders and the relationship of drug exposure in plasma and CNS to pharmacodynamic measures in both animals and humans. - Includes comprehensive coverage of biomarker tools and the role of personalized medicine in CNS drug development - Discusses strategies for drug development for a full range of CNS indications, with particular attention to neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive disorders - Includes chapters written by international experts from industry and academia

Translational Research in Traumatic Brain Injury

Translational Research in Traumatic Brain Injury
Author: Daniel Laskowitz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1498766579

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a significant source of death and permanent disability, contributing to nearly one-third of all injury related deaths in the United States and exacting a profound personal and economic toll. Despite the increased resources that have recently been brought to bear to improve our understanding of TBI, the developme

Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation

Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation
Author: Gonzalo Emiliano Aranda Abreu
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-08-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9535134515

"Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation" book explains how the neuronal cells become swollen at the moment of the blood-brain barrier disruption and how they lose their immunological isolation. A cascade of cytokines and immune cells from the bloodstream enters the nervous system, inflaming neurons and activating the glia. This produces a neuroinflammatory process that can generate different neurodegenerative diseases. Better understanding of mechanisms that are activated at the time when the damage to the brain occurs could lead to the development of suitable therapies that revert the neuronal inflammation and thus prevent further damage to the nervous system.

Neuroinflammation in Stroke

Neuroinflammation in Stroke
Author: Ulrich Dirnagl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3662054264

The successful treatment of acute stroke remains one of the major challenges in clinical medicine. Over the last decades, the understanding of stroke pathophysiology has greatly improved, while the therapeutic options in stroke therapy remain very limited. Today, hyperacute mechanisms of damage, such as excitotoxicity, can be discriminated from delayed ones, such as inflammation and apoptosis. Targeting of inflammation has already been successfully applied in various stroke models, but translation into a clinically efficacious strategy has not been achieved so far. In this book, leading experts in basic cerebrovascular research as well as stroke treatment review the current evidence for and against an important role for inflammation in stroke, and explore the potential of treating or modulating inflammation in stroke therapy.

The Microbiology of Central Nervous System Infections

The Microbiology of Central Nervous System Infections
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2018-02-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128138076

The Microbiology of Central Nervous System Infections, Volume 3, discusses modern approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of central nervous system (CNS) infections. This new release is divided into five sections that cover treatment strategies, imaging, molecular diagnosis, management of CNS infections with metal nanoparticles, and prophylaxis of CNS infections, including bacterial, viral and fungal infections. The last section contains a chapter on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and modern trends in its diagnosis and treatment. University teachers, medical practitioners, graduate and postgraduate students, researchers in microbiology, and those in the pharmaceutical and laboratory diagnostic industries will find the book very important. - Encompasses a broad range of central nervous system infections, including questions of etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prophylaxis - Written by highly professional and eminent surgeons, microbiologists and infectious disease specialists - Includes scientific understanding and practical guidelines, making it interesting for both research scientists and practitioners

Etiology of Parkinson's Disease

Etiology of Parkinson's Disease
Author: Jonas H. Ellenberg
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1995-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780824788230

This comprehensive reference provides a detailed overview of current concepts regarding the cause of Parkinson's disease-emphasizing the issues involved in the design, implementation, and analysis of epidemiological studies of parkinsonism.

Inflammation and Epilepsy: New Vistas

Inflammation and Epilepsy: New Vistas
Author: Damir Janigro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030674037

This book provides comprehensive information, both for clinicians and scientists, on the basic mechanisms, clinical features, and therapeutic approaches to epilepsy as an inflammatory disease. Inflammation has been for many years considered as an etiologic player (and a therapeutic target) for a specific group of epilepsies. However, it turns out that this concept underestimated the impact of inflammation in seizure disorders. Many accepted therapies for non-inflammatory epilepsies act in part as an inflammatory drug. The CNS actively responds to acute immune challenges by altering body temperature, stimulating the HPA axis, as well as up- and down-regulating specific sympathetic pathways.

Cytokines and Pain

Cytokines and Pain
Author: L.R. Watkins
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783764358495

The purpose of this book is to examine immune-to-brain communication from the viewpoint of its effect on pain processing, and to clarify the major role that substances released by immune cells play in pain modulation. In these chapters, contributed by major laboratories whose focus is understanding how cytokines modulate pain, the perspectives examined range from evolutionary approaches across diverse species, to the basics of the immune response, to the effect of cytokines on peripheral and central nervous system sites, to therapeutic potential in humans. -- book cover.

Translational Pain Research

Translational Pain Research
Author: Lawrence Kruger
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439812101

One of the Most Rapidly Advancing Fields in Modern Neuroscience The success of molecular biology and the new tools derived from molecular genetics have revolutionized pain research and its translation to therapeutic effectiveness. Bringing together recent advances in modern neuroscience regarding genetic studies in mice and humans and the practical