Article
Pharmacogenomics in Alzheimer's disease.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2008
Cacabelos Ramón
Abstract excerpt
Pharmacological treatment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for 10-20% of direct costs, and fewer than 20% of AD patients are moderate responders to conventional drugs (donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine, memantine), with doubtful cost-effectiveness. Both AD pathogenesis and drug metabolism are genetically regulated complex traits in which hundreds of genes cooperatively participate. Structural genomics...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
