Overview
- Provides an overview of studies on age-related disorders, which is an increasing problem worldwide
- Describes the research underway to slow or delay the progress of age-related diseases in humans
- Discusses both positive and negative findings
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1260)
Part of the book sub series: Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology (PMISB)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem. This is mainly due to the fact that the increasing proportion of individuals in the advanced age category have a higher probability of developing age-related disorders, such as type II diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, sarcopenia, and neurodegenerative conditions. New therapeutic approaches are still needed to decrease or slow the effects of such diseases. Advances in -omic technologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, have significantly advanced our understanding of disease in multiple medical areas, as the analysis of multiple molecular networks has simultaneously provided a more integrated view of disease pathways. It is hoped that emerging hits from these analyses might be prioritized for further screening as potential novel drug targets for increasing the human healthspan in line with the lifespan. In turn, this will lead to new therapeutic strategies as well as drug development projects by the pharmaceutical industry.
This book presents a series of reviews describing studies that have resulted in identification of new potential drug targets for age-related disorders. Much of this information has come from -omic comparisons of healthy and disease states or from testing the effects of new therapeutic approaches. Authored by experts from around the globe, each chapter is presented in the context of specific chronic diseases or therapeutic strategies. This book is designed for researchers in the areas of aging and chronic disease, as well as clinical scientists, physicians and stakeholders in major drug companies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Paul C. Guest, Ph.D, is a scientific researcher/writer with 37 years of experience in the fields of metabolic and neurological disorders. This includes experience in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry with the majority of time spent at the University of Cambridge and Merck Sharp & Dohme in the United Kingdom. He has also been affiliated with the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo Brazil since 2015, still focused on advancing the field of biomarkers for neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and age-related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, sarcopenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reviews on New Drug Targets in Age-Related Disorders
Editors: Paul C. Guest
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42667-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42666-8Published: 18 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42669-9Published: 18 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42667-5Published: 17 April 2020
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Proteomics, Metabolomics, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Systems Biology