New Therapeutic Approaches to Aging and Age-Associated Degenerative Diseases
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2021) | Viewed by 215
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increase in life expectancy has led to an increment in prevalence of age-related diseases. Among them, neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease) and cancer represent the major burden. Developing new therapeutic approaches for these types of diseases represents a challenge since, for a significant number of those clinical entities, there is no effective treatment, and therapy is mainly devoted to slowing down disease progression and trying to maintain an acceptable quality of life for the patients. Therapeutics of age-related diseases constitutes a very active area of research where, in addition to classical small drugs or specific monoclonal antibodies, there are relevant innovations based on basic research breakthroughs such as chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). Moreover, nanomedicine and the use of nanoparticles, as therapeutic components themselves or as carriers for specific delivery of small drugs or genetic material, have appeared as a new therapeutic pathway worth exploring.
Prof. Valentin Ceña
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aging
- neurodegeneration
- therapeutics
- cancer
- nanomedicine
- nanoparticles
- animal models of disease
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