CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
International Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases 2005
Sorrento, Italy
09 – 13 March 2005
Sorrento: Immunotherapy Update Hot Off Lectern of AD/PD Conference
Yesterday, the 7th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease—AD/PD 2005 for short—drew to a close in beautiful Sorrento, Italy...
Sorrento: Scientists Stop Clubbing, Start Tweaking, γ-Secretase
One of the surprises at the AD/PD 2005 conference held last week in Sorrento, Italy, lay in just how many groups presented new experimental therapy approaches in various stages of preclinical development.
Sorrento Secretase News: Baiting β, Awakening α
Spooked by the pitfalls of γ-secretase drug development, BACE fans like to point out that their aspartyl protease may be a safer target.
Sorrento: More Fun, Less Amyloid for Transgenic Mice
If you need a reason to get off the bench and work up a sweat, consider this: Increasing physical and mental activity dramatically lowers amyloid plaque deposition in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease...
Sorrento: They’ve Just Got to Have It—Where’s That Biomarker? Part 1
This is part 1 of a biomarker update from Sorrento.
Sorrento: They’ve Just Got to Have It—Where’s That Biomarker? Part 2
This is part 2 of the biomarker update from Sorrento.
Sorrento: Sorting Out Shedding of Ectodomains
Not only the sweet scent from the ubiquitous citrus trees aroused the senses at the 7th international AD/PD meeting in Sorrento, but the unlikely theme of...
Sorrento: ADNI Imagines the Future of AD Imaging
With the myriad of different techniques that are now available to visualize changes in the brain, neuroimaging seems poised to...
Sorrento: Trouble with the Pro’s
No, this is not a story, published in the wrong place, about a misbehaving sports star. It is about protein growth factors in Alzheimer disease...
Sorrento: Tumor Suppressor Ties Miscreant Kinase to Cell Cycle
Exactly what makes p25/Cdk5 so deadly to neurons? A good place to start tracing the path of this rogue kinase would be...
Sorrento: More Mice and Men—What Role ApoE in Vascular Dementia?
When most people think of Alzheimer disease (AD), they imagine parenchymal amyloid plaques. But vascular deposits can be just as damaging. Consider...