Model Organisms in Drug Discovery.pdf

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Model Organisms in Drug Discovery
edited by Pamela M. Carroll
and Kevin Fitzgerald


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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 signaling 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.

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

Contents


Introduction to Model Systems in Drug Discovery
Growing Yeast for Fun and Profit: Use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model System in Drug Discovery
Caenorhabditis elegans Functional Genomics in Drug Discovery: Expanding Paradigms
Drosophila as a Tool for Drug Discovery
Drosophila ?a Model System for Targets and Lead Identification in Cancer and Metabolic Disorders
Mechanism of Action in Model Organisms: Interfacing Chemistry, Genetics and Genomics
Gene tics and Genomics in the Zebrafish: from Gene to Function and Back
Lipid Metabolism and Signaling in Zebrafish
Chemical Mutagenesis in the Mouse: a Powerful Tool in Drug Target Identification and Validation
Saturation Screening of the Druggable Mammalian Genome

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