Main description:

This book reviews advances in understanding phosphodiesterases within the central nervous system and their therapeutic applications. A range of expert authors from both academia and industry describe these, then focus on the areas of greatest scientific and medical interest to provide more detailed coverage. Therapeutic and drug discovery applications are covered for diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, erectile dysfunction, and spinal cord injuries. There is also a chapter on drug discovery tools such as in vitro assays and X-ray structures for medicinal chemistry studies.

Contents:

PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix 1 PHOSPHODIESTERASES AND CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE SIGNALING IN THE CNS 1 Marco Conti and Wito Richter 2 PUTTING TOGETHER THE PIECES OF PHOSPHODIESTERASE DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS IN THE BRAIN: A JIGSAW PUZZLE OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE REGULATION 47 Michy P. Kelly 3 COMPARTMENTALIZATION AND REGULATION OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE SIGNALING IN THE CNS 59 Manuela Zaccolo and Alessandra Stangherlin 4 PHARMACOLOGICAL MANIPULATION OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE SIGNALING FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN THE BRAIN 77 Frank S. Menniti, Niels Plath, Niels Svenstrup, and Christopher J. Schmidt 5 RECENT RESULTS IN PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR DEVELOPMENT AND CNS APPLICATIONS 115 David P. Rotella 6 CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF PHOSPHODIESTERASES AND IMPLICATION ON DISCOVERY OF INHIBITORS 145 Hengming Ke, Huanchen Wang, Mengchun Ye, and Yingchun Huang 7 INHIBITION OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES TO REGULATE MEMORY 171 Han-Ting Zhang, Ying Xu, and James O Donnell 8 EMERGING ROLE FOR PDE4 IN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: TRANSLATING ADVANCES FROM GENETIC STUDIES INTO RELEVANT THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES 211 Sandra P. Zoubovsky, Nicholas J. Brandon, and Akira Sawa 9 BEYOND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION: UNDERSTANDING PDE5 ACTIVITY IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 223 Eva P.P. Bollen, Kris Rutten, Olga A.H. Reneerkens, Harry M.W. Steinbusch, and Jos Prickaerts 10 MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR UNDERSTANDING OF PDE10A: A DUAL-SUBSTRATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE WITH THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL TO MODULATE BASAL GANGLIA FUNCTION 247 Erik I. Charych and Nicholas J. Brandon 11 ROLE OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE SIGNALING AND PHOSPHODIESTERASE ACTIVATION IN THE MODULATION OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF CENTRAL NEURONS 269 Sarah Threlfell and Anthony R. West 12 THE ROLE OF PHOSPHODIESTERASES IN DOPAMINE SYSTEMS GOVERNING MOTIVATED BEHAVIOR 303 Gretchen L. Snyder, Joseph P. Hendrick, and Akinori Nishi 13 INHIBITION OF PHOSPHODIESTERASES AS A STRATEGY FOR TREATMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY 353 Elena Nikulina and Marie T. Filbin INDEX 375