Title
α-Synuclein and tau, two targets for dementia
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Universidad de Chile
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Older people are increasing in number worldwide and they are affected by neurodegenerative disorders. Tauopathies are neurodegenerative disorders that involve diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17 (FTD-17), corticobasal degeneration, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) among others. Other neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease is characterized for inclusion denominated as Lewis bodies conformed by hyperphosphorylated alpha-synuclein protein (α-syn). However, there are some neurodegenerative disorders that overlap each other such as dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), Lewy body variant of AD and Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD). Moreover, there is an increase in the number of patients of PD with dementia and patients with AD with Lewy body's inclusions in post mortem samples. Thus, we find pertinent to discuss both covalent and noncovalent inhibitors targeting alpha-synuclein and tau.
Start page
1
End page
25
Volume
67
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica)
Neurología clínica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85089472023
Resource of which it is part
Studies in Natural Products Chemistry
ISSN of the container
15725995
Source project
Fondecyt Regular 1150745 to A.C. and C.A. G.P. is an advisor for Phoenix Biotech and Investicure. Also, he is a board of Neurotez and Neurotrope.
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