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Chemical Tools And Treatments For Neurological Disorders And Infectious Diseases, Andrea Lemus
Chemical Tools And Treatments For Neurological Disorders And Infectious Diseases, Andrea Lemus
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Neurological disorders have multiple etiologies such as genetics and age. Stress related disorders are becoming more common and diagnosed more often. Mental health disorders are no longer being treated as purely psychological. Mechanisms into the underlying factors of these disorders continue to bring this area to new frontiers. Chapter 2 of this dissertation focuses on the efforts made to prove the association of the protein FKBP51 to the stress response. We synthesized and used a molecular tool to discover and prove these interactions.
The study of neurodegenerative diseases is of continued importance as the world reaches record numbers of an …