Phytomedicine and Alzheimer's Disease
暫譯: 植物醫學與阿茲海默症

阿茲海默症是最迅速增長的神經退行性疾病之一，其特徵是記憶的逐漸喪失。儘管在醫療治療領域已有多項進展，但對於阿茲海默症的可行治療仍然至關重要。藥用植物代表了一個尚未充分開發的天然藥物庫，並且可能成為抗阿茲海默症藥物的潛在來源。這些植物的植物成分結構多樣性使其成為尋找治療阿茲海默症新型先導化合物的寶貴來源。根據傳統文獻和最新研究，已從植物提取物中識別出多種新的具有治療活性的化合物，這些化合物可能對治療認知障礙有幫助。

《植物醫學與阿茲海默症》提供了以下資訊：

- 阿茲海默症中神經退行性變化的機制及植物化學物質作為修復劑的角色
- 理解阿茲海默症的複雜生化方面
- 評估針對阿茲海默症的藥物的臨床前方法
- 評估治療阿茲海默症的替代方法及替代醫學在延緩此病症狀進展中的角色
- 阿茲海默症中的表觀遺傳變化及可能的治療或飲食干預

本書是科學研究者、學術界人士、生物化學家、植物學家及替代醫學從業者的優秀資源，旨在推進植物醫學在治療阿茲海默症中的角色。

Dr. Atanu Bhattacharjee, M.Pharma, Ph.D. is currently working as Associate Professor in Faculty of Pharmaceutical science, Assam Down Town University, Assam, India. His area of specialization includes Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry. Dr. Bhattacharjee holds a master's degree in Pharmacognosy from J.S.S. College of Pharmacy, Ooty India. He was the recipient of Senior Research Fellow (CCRAS, New Delhi). He has obtained his Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Nitte University, Mangalore (NAAC 'A' graded University) in 2015 in the area of phytochemistry and neuropharmacology of traditional Indian medicinal plant. He worked extensively on evaluation of nootropic potential of Ayurvedic plant with emphasizing their effect on cholinergic neurotransmission. His research contribution includes assessment of several in-vivo neuro-pharmacological assay and in-vitro cholinesterase enzyme, antioxidant potential of drugs obtained from natural sources. He is the Honorable Academic Editor of Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, SCIENCEDOMAIN International, India. He is also the Associate Editor of MedCrave Online Journal of Tumor Research. Recently he has been elected as Editorial Board member of Integrative Trauma and Emergency Medicine. He is registered Ph.D guide of Assam down town University. More than 20 research and review articles in reputed national/international journals were added to his credit. He has authored many book chapters in various reputed International Publishers Taylor & Francis and Springer, USA. He presented several scientific papers, attended a number of national and international conferences and delivered invitee lecture in different scientific forums. He is a life time member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mumbai, India. At present, he is Editorial team member of 07 and reviewer of more than 10 highly reputed International Journals. He is involved enthusiastically in scientific research on traditional medharasayana drugs and to develop active research culture.

Dr. Ramakrishna Akula is currently a scientist at Bayer Crop Science, Bangalore, India. Dr. Ramakrishna holds a master's degree from Sri Krishna Devaraya University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Mysore, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru. He is a Senior Research Fellow of CSIR, New Delhi. He is involved in various research fields such as Plant Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Plant secondary metabolites, Food Science and Technology and Vegetable quality analytics. He has published several research papers in the leading international journals, published 3 books, reviews and book chapters. He is also serving as editorial board member, and reviewer for reputed international journals. Presented over 20 research papers in symposia in India and abroad, as well as few invited lectures in India. He attended the Fifth International Symposium on Plant Neurobiology held in 2009 in Florence, Italy. He also attended the Technical Community of Monsanto (TCM) held in 2016, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the Indian science congress association and society for biotechnologists (India). He is a fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology, India (2012), and recipient of Global Vegetable Research Excellence Award (2017), Global technology recognition, Rapid Recognition Award, and Special recognition from the Monsanto company.

Obulesu Magisetty is currently a scientist at ATG Laboratories, Pune, India. He has 18 years of research and teaching experience. His research areas are multifarious which include food science, pathology of Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and designing polymer based Biomaterials (Design of hydrogels etc.). He did Alzheimer's disease research and developed an aluminium induced neurotoxicity rabbit model. His present research focuses on development of redox-active injectable hydrogels of polyion complex. His research area also includes development of metal chelators to overcome metal induced toxicity. His books, a monograph entitled "Alzheimer's Disease Theranostics (Elsevier (First Edition))" and an editorial collection "Alternative Medicine for Alzheimer's Disease (Taylor and Francis)" are in progress currently (Proposals accepted and Work in Progress). He is the first and corresponding author for majority of his articles. He secured a certificate from Stanford University for the Scientific Writing course. He is on editorial board of a few pathology journals such as Journal of Medical Laboratory and Diagnosis, Journal of Medical and Surgical Pathology, Annals of Retrovirals and Antiretrovirals, Kenkyu Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research, SciFed Oncology and Cancer Research Journal, Journal of Cancer and Cure. He is also on editorial board of nanotechnology journals such as SciFed Nanotech Research Letters, SciFed Drug Delivery Research, Current Updates in Nanotechnology and Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science.

阿塔努·巴塔查吉博士，藥學碩士，博士，目前擔任印度阿薩姆州阿薩姆市下城大學藥學院的副教授。他的專業領域包括藥用植物學與植物化學。巴塔查吉博士擁有印度烏堤市J.S.S.藥學院的藥用植物學碩士學位。他曾獲得新德里CCRAS的高級研究員獎學金。他於2015年在印度南部的尼特大學獲得藥學博士學位，研究領域為傳統印度藥用植物的植物化學與神經藥理學。他廣泛研究了阿育吠陀植物的認知增強潛力，強調其對膽鹼能神經傳導的影響。他的研究貢獻包括評估多項in-vivo神經藥理學測試及in-vitro膽鹼酯酶、來自天然來源藥物的抗氧化潛力。他是《亞洲醫學與健康期刊》的榮譽學術編輯，並擔任《MedCrave腫瘤研究在線期刊》的副編輯。最近，他被選為《綜合創傷與急救醫學》的編輯委員會成員。他是阿薩姆下城大學的註冊博士生導師。他在多本國內外知名期刊上發表了超過20篇研究和綜述文章。他在多家國際知名出版社如Taylor & Francis和Springer（美國）撰寫了多個書籍章節。他發表了多篇科學論文，參加了多個國內外會議，並在不同的科學論壇上進行邀請演講。他是印度藥學會（孟買）的終身會員。目前，他是7本期刊的編輯團隊成員，並擔任超過10本國際知名期刊的審稿人。他熱衷於傳統藥物的科學研究，並致力於發展活躍的研究文化。

拉馬克里希納·阿庫拉博士目前是印度班加羅爾拜耳作物科學公司的科學家。阿庫拉博士擁有印度安那塔布爾的斯里克里希納·德瓦拉亞大學的碩士學位。他在邁索爾大學CSIR-CFTRI獲得生物化學博士學位。他是新德里CSIR的高級研究員。他參與多個研究領域，如植物生物技術、生物化學、植物次級代謝物、食品科學與技術及蔬菜品質分析。他在多本國際知名期刊上發表了多篇研究論文，出版了3本書籍、綜述和書籍章節。他還擔任多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人。在印度及國外的研討會上發表了超過20篇研究論文，以及在印度的幾場邀請演講。他參加了2009年在意大利佛羅倫斯舉行的第五屆國際植物神經生物學研討會。他還參加了2016年在密蘇里州聖路易斯舉行的孟山都技術社區會議（TCM）。他是印度科學大會協會和印度生物技術學會的成員。他是應用生物技術學會的會員（2012年），並獲得全球蔬菜研究卓越獎（2017年）、全球技術認可、快速認可獎及孟山都公司的特別認可。

奧布雷蘇·馬吉塞提目前是印度浦那ATG實驗室的科學家。他擁有18年的研究和教學經驗。他的研究領域多樣，包括食品科學、神經退行性疾病（如阿茲海默症）的病理學以及設計基於聚合物的生物材料（如水凝膠的設計）。他進行了阿茲海默症的研究，並開發了一種鋁誘導的神經毒性兔模型。他目前的研究重點是開發紅氧活性可注射的聚離子複合水凝膠。他的研究領域還包括開發金屬螯合劑以克服金屬誘導的毒性。他的書籍，包括名為《阿茲海默症的治療診斷（Elsevier（第一版））》的專著和編輯集《阿茲海默症的替代醫學（Taylor and Francis）》目前正在進行中（提案已接受，工作進行中）。他是大多數文章的第一作者和通訊作者。他獲得了斯坦福大學的科學寫作課程證書。他是幾本病理學期刊的編輯委員會成員，如《醫學實驗室與診斷期刊》、《醫學與外科病理學期刊》、《Retrovirals與抗逆轉錄病毒年鑑》、《醫學科學與臨床研究的Kenkyu期刊》、《SciFed腫瘤學與癌症研究期刊》、《癌症與治療期刊》。他還是幾本納米技術期刊的編輯委員會成員，如《SciFed納米技術研究信件》、《SciFed藥物傳遞研究》、《納米技術的最新動態》和《納米技術與材料科學期刊》。