The In Silico Search for an Endogenous Anti-Alzheimer's Therapeutic

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, degenerative neurological disorder for which there is no cure. The causative agent is ?-amyloid (A?) which becomes neurotoxic upon conformational change from ?-helix to ?-sheet. In silico methods have been used to indentify endogenous small molecules of the...

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Main Author: Meek, Autumn
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14390