Pravin R Bhansali, Shashank M Sonkusare, Shubhangi S Savale, Yasanandana S Wijayasinghe, Yini Liao, Douglas C Sloan, Ganesh U Chaturbhuj, Brian S Muntean
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The World Health Organization reports 10 million new patients with dementia each year. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease (AD), which constitutes up to 70% of cases. AD is mainly characterized by loss of memory, which, in addition to its debilitating individual effect, represents a burden of 1.3 trillion US dollars globally. The staggering scale of hardship has spurred intense investigations from the scientific community in search of therapeutic solutions. Recent advances to combat AD involve the identification of numerous neural targets and concomitant chemical interventions as nodes of therapy. Due to disparate biological and chemical facets of AD therapy, a comprehensive perspective covering both arenas is currently missing from the literature. This perspective aims to provide an extensive understanding of anti-AD mechanics alongside small-molecule drug design efforts from a medicinal chemist viewpoint. We are confident that this survey of the literature will provide a resourceful motivation to propel future research efforts towards successful Alzheimer's disease therapy.
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Frontiers in Chemistry is a high visiblity and quality journal, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the chemical sciences. Field Chief Editor Steve Suib at the University of Connecticut is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to academics, industry leaders and the public worldwide.
Chemistry is a branch of science that is linked to all other main fields of research. The omnipresence of Chemistry is apparent in our everyday lives from the electronic devices that we all use to communicate, to foods we eat, to our health and well-being, to the different forms of energy that we use. While there are many subtopics and specialties of Chemistry, the fundamental link in all these areas is how atoms, ions, and molecules come together and come apart in what some have come to call the “dance of life”.
All specialty sections of Frontiers in Chemistry are open-access with the goal of publishing outstanding research publications, review articles, commentaries, and ideas about various aspects of Chemistry. The past forms of publication often have specific subdisciplines, most commonly of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistries, but these days those lines and boxes are quite blurry and the silos of those disciplines appear to be eroding. Chemistry is important to both fundamental and applied areas of research and manufacturing, and indeed the outlines of academic versus industrial research are also often artificial. Collaborative research across all specialty areas of Chemistry is highly encouraged and supported as we move forward. These are exciting times and the field of Chemistry is an important and significant contributor to our collective knowledge.
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