Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases

ISBN-13: 9780323957625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Magisetty Obulesu

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Plant Extracts in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease 3. Plant Extracts in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease 4. Plant Extracts in the Treatment of Prion Disease 5. Neuroprotective Role in Motor Neuron Diseases 6. Plant Extracts Ameliorate Huntington's Disease Symptoms 7. Phytochemicals and Their Potential Protective Effects Against Spinocerebellar Ataxia 8. Efficacy of Various Plant Compounds in the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy 9. Improvement of ALS Symptoms Using Plant Extracts 10. Neuroprotective Role of Curcumin in ALS

O autorze

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.