169 - Treatments targeting Neuroprotection and Synaptic Activity in Alzheimer's Disease: May 2021

Anusha will guide you through 21 papers in this episode that target synaptic and neuroprotection as therapeutic intervention for Alzheimer's disease. She covers 3 topics including the use of pre-existing synthetic compounds, naturally occuring compounds, and designing and optimizing drugs to improve efficacy. All of these papers were published in May of 2021 so be sure to check it out to offer your neurons protection from ignorance! 

Sections in this episode: 

Using Pre-existing Synthetic Compounds (2.21) 

Using Naturally Occurring Compounds (12.36) 

Drug Design (26.35) 

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We would like to thank our amazing team for all of the work that goes into every episode of AMiNDR. Today's episode was scripted and hosted by Anusha Kamesh, reviewed by Sarah Louadi, and edited by Anusha Kamesh. The bibliography was created by Sarah Louadi who also generated the wordcloud on www.wordart.com. 

Big thanks to the sorting team for sorting all the papers published in May into themes for our episodes: Jacques Ferreira, Elyn Rowe, Ellen Koch, Christy Yu, Nicole Corso, and Naila Kuhlmann. 

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