Academic Press Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Disease examines the therapeutic efficacy of plant extracts and the lead compounds contained therein that can significantly improve symptoms of disease in the brain. Providing insight into the protective mechanisms of these bioactive plant compounds to treat Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, motor neuron disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases, it also discusses the pros and cons of using this type of treatment as well as future perspectives to overcome current challenges. With chapters looking at individual diseases, readers will learn about studies unique to each condition, which includes Huntington’s Disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, SMA, ALS, and prion disease. Review A concise reference on medicinal plant extracts for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease From the Back Cover <p><i>Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Disease</i> examines the therapeutic efficacy of plant extracts and the lead compounds contained therein that can significantly improve symptoms of disease in the brain. Providing insight into the protective mechanisms of these bioactive plant compounds to treat Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, motor neuron disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases, it also discusses the pros and cons of using this type of treatment as well as future perspectives to overcome current challenges. With chapters looking at individual diseases, readers will learn about studies unique to each condition, which includes Huntington’s Disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, SMA, ALS, and prion disease.</p> About the Author Magisetty Obulesu is a research associate at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Tirupati, India. He has 20 years of research and teaching experience. He is also an editorial board of nanotechnology journals including SciFed Nanotech Research Letters, SciFed Drug Delivery Research, Current Updates in Nanotechnology and Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science. His research areas include food science, pathology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, designing polymer-based biomaterials such as hydrogels, and development of metal chelators to overcome metal induced toxicity. He has researched Alzheimer’s disease and developed an aluminium-induced neurotoxicity rabbit model. Mr. Obulesu’s present research focuses on development of redox-active injectable hydrogels of polyion complex. He has written three books and edited two more; he is also the first and corresponding author for majority of his articles.