Model Organisms in Drug Discovery (eBook)

Pamela M. Carroll, Kevin Fitzgerald (Herausgeber)

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2004 | 1. Auflage
302 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-87130-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Fruit flies are "little people with wings" goes the saying in the
scientific community, ever since the completion of the Human Genome
Project and its revelations about the similarity amongst the
genomes of different organisms. It is humbling that most signalling
pathways which "define" humans are conserved in Drosophila, the
common fruit fly.

Feed a fruit fly caffeine and it has trouble falling asleep;
feed it antihistamines and it cannot stay awake. A C. elegans worm
placed on the antidepressant flouxetine has increased serotonin
levels in its tiny brain. Yeast treated with chemotherapeutics stop
their cell division. Removal of a single gene from a mouse or
zebrafish can cause the animals to develop Alzheimer's
disease or heart disease. These organisms are utilized as
surrogates to investigate the function and design of complex human
biological systems.

Advances in bioinformatics, proteomics, automation technologies
and their application to model organism systems now occur on an
industrial scale. The integration of model systems into the drug
discovery process, the speed of the tools, and the in vivo
validation data that these models can provide, will clearly help
definition of disease biology and high-quality target validation.
Enhanced target selection will lead to the more efficacious and
less toxic therapeutic compounds of the future.

Leading experts in the field provide detailed accounts of model
organism research that have impacted on specific therapeutic areas
and they examine state-of-the-art applications of model systems,
describing real life applications and their possible impact in the
future.

This book will be of interest to geneticists, bioinformaticians,
pharmacologists, molecular biologists and people working in the
pharmaceutical industry, particularly genomics.

Autor

Pamela M. Carroll is the editor of Model Organisms in Drug Discovery, published by Wiley. Kevin Fitzgerald is the editor of Model Organisms in Drug Discovery, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

List of contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction to Model Systems in Drug Discovery (Kevin
Fitzgerald and Pamela M. Carroll).

2. Growing Yeast for Fun and Profit: Use of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae as a Model System in Drug Discovery (Petra
Ross-Macdonald).

3. Caenorhabditis elegans Functional Genomics in Drug
Discovery: Expanding Paradigms (Titus Kaletta, Lynn Butler and
Thierry Bogaert).

4. Drosophila as a Tool for Drug Discovery (Hao Li and
Dan Garza).

5. Drosophila - a Model System for Targets and Lead
Identification in Cancer and Metabolic Disorders (Corina
Schütt, Barbara Froesch and Ernst Hafen).

6. Mechanism of Action in Model Organisms: Interfacing
Chemistry, Genetics and Genomics (Pamela M. Carroll, Kevin
Fitzgerald and Rachel Kindt).

7. Gene tics and Genomics in the Zebrafish: from Gene to
Function and Back (Stefan Schulte-Merker).

8. Lipid Metabolism and Signaling in Zebrafish (Shiu-Ying Ho,
Steven A. Farber and Michael Pack).

9. Chemical Mutagenesis in the Mouse: a Powerful Tool in Drug
Target Identification and Validation (Andreas Russ, Neil Dear,
Geert Mudde, Gabriele Stumm, Johannes Grosse, Andreas
Schröder, Reinhard Sedlmeier, Sigrid Wattler and Michael
Nehls).

10. Saturation Screening of the Druggable Mammalian Genome
(Hector Beltrandelrio, Francis Kern, Thomas Lanthorn, Tamas
Oravecz, James Piggott, David Powell, Ramiro Ramirez-Solis, Arthur
T. Sands and Brian Zambrowicz).

Index.

Rezensionen

"...an invaluable resource for an researcher in the academic or
private sector...essential for any graduate level course..." (Drug
Discovery Today, Vol 9(7), April 2004)

"...summarised the major organisms of use in this area together
with their relative strengths and weaknesses..." (British Society
of Cell Biology Newsletter, Summer 2004)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Animal Science & Zoology • Biotechnologie • Biotechnologie i. d. Biowissenschaften • Biotechnology • Biowissenschaften • Cell & Molecular Biology • Comparative Biology (Botany & Zoology) • Life Sciences • Vergleichende Biologie ( Zoologie u. Botanik) • Zell- u. Molekularbiologie • Zoologie
• ISBN-10: 0-470-87130-X / 047087130X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-87130-0 / 9780470871300