Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Disease examines the therapeutic efficacy of plant extracts and the lead compounds contained therein that can significantly improve symptoms of diseases of the brain. Providing insights into the protective mechanisms of these bioactive plant compounds to treat Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, motor neuron disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases, the book also discusses the pros and cons of using these types of treatments, along with perspectives to overcome current challenges. With chapters looking at individual diseases, readers will learn about studies unique to each condition, including Huntington's Disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, SMA, ALS and prion disease. - Discusses the therapeutic efficacy of plant extracts and their lead bioactive compounds to treat neurodegenerative disease - Describes protective mechanisms, pros and cons, and future perspectives - Contains individual diseases in each chapter, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, motor neuron disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, prion disease, SMA and ALS

Magisetty Obulesu is a research associate at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Tirupati, India. He has 20 years of research and teaching experience. He is also an editorial board of nanotechnology journals including SciFed Nanotech Research Letters, SciFed Drug Delivery Research, Current Updates in Nanotechnology and Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science. His research areas include food science, pathology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, designing polymer-based biomaterials such as hydrogels, and development of metal chelators to overcome metal induced toxicity. He has researched Alzheimer's disease and developed an aluminium-induced neurotoxicity rabbit model. Mr. Obulesu's present research focuses on development of redox-active injectable hydrogels of polyion complex. He has written three books and edited two more; he is also the first and corresponding author for majority of his articles.