inflammation

Drug Discovery for Alzheimer's Disease

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Gregory Rose from PharmExperts.com interviews J. Buccafusco (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA) about his development of new anti-Altzheimer drugs, designed to act by multiple mechanisms to improve congnition. Desensitization of nicotinic receptors is one of the novel approaches proposed by Buccafusco. Three of his compounds are currently in advanced preclinical evaluation.

Aberrant mucin assembly in mice causes endoplasmic reticulum stress and spontaneous inflammation resembling ulcerative colitis

submitted by: mmcguckin
Authors: Heazlewood CK, Cook MC, Eri R, Price G, Tauro S, Taupin D, Thornton DJ, Png CW, Crockford TL, Cornall, RJ, Adams R, Kato M, Nelms KA, Hong NA, Florin THJ, Goodnow CC, McGuckin MA