Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States
Abstract
Background:
Neurodegenerative diseases are age-related ailments which are characterized
by progressive neuronal damage and loss. These diseases can be caused by both genetic and
environmental factors. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are the most predominant neurodegenerative
diseases. Though various research strategies have been employed to eliminate the cause of the disease,
till date successful strategies available are symptomatic. Various compounds have been designed
against the targets, such as BACE1, acetylcholinesterase, glycogen synthase kinase, muscarinic
acetylcholine receptor etc.
Methods:
This review consists of information gathered from various research articles and review
papers in the concerned field. An attempt was made to identify important findings from these papers.
Important in silico techniques used in the identification of drug candidates and newly designed
compounds as therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases were summarized.
Results:
Sixty papers were included in this review. A comprehensive overview of computer aided
drug designing techniques used aimed at the identification of new drug candidates is provided.
Ligand based drug design approaches such as QSAR, virtual screening and pharmacophore have
been described. Current therapies used against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s have summarized.
New compounds against the targets of for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s identified by computational
screening of compounds have been summarized.
Conclusion:
The findings of this review confirm that therapies and current successful strategies
for neurodegenerative disease are mainly symptomatic. Current research is mainly focused on preventing
the progress of neurodegeneration. Various in silico techniques; ligand-based methods
such as QSAR, virtual screening, pharmacophore mapping and structure-based methods such as
homology modeling, docking studies have been used to identify therapeutic compounds for Alzheimer’s
and Parkinson’s.
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Endocrinology
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