Novel Therapeutic Target and Drug Discovery for Neurological Diseases, Volume II

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Editorial: Novel therapeutic target and drug discovery for neurological diseases, volume II

Kaiyue Zhao

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Zixuan Li

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Ting Sun

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Qingshan Liu

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Rui Liu

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Rui Liu

Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Zhuorong Li

Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

George Barreto

University of Limerick

Yong Cheng

Minzu University of China

LIU Qing-Shan

Minzu University of China

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This Research Topic is the second volume of the Research Topic " Novel Therapeutic Target and Drug Discovery for Neurological Diseases". Please see the first volume here.

Neurological diseases represent heterogeneous disorders that involve complex pathological alterations with only a few effective treatments; therefore, there is a great need for the development of novel therapeutic targets and therapies. There are more than six hundred neurological disorders, including dementia, cerebrovascular diseases, mental illness, brain tumor, and infection-caused central diseases, all arising from disruption to the central nervous system. Researchers are attempting to identify promising targets and potential drug candidates from new biological techniques and pharmacological animal studies. Thus, novel target discovery and mechanism elucidation, as well as the development of small-molecule entities, natural compounds, and polypeptides for the treatment of neurological dysfunction, may offer exciting clues for novel therapeutic strategies to halt or mitigate the course of neurological diseases.

Despite the efforts for the management of neurological disorders, the accomplishment of completely effective therapy of these diseases, like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and malignant glioma, is still considered a challenging task. The present Research Topic focuses on the recent advances in new therapeutic agents utilizing interdisciplinary and multimodal technologies and promising drug targets or biomarkers after verification, which may help overcome the obstacles for therapeutic discovery and disease pathobiology in neurological disorders.

The Research Topic aims to gather original research, review, systematic review, mini review, perspective, case report, and data report on the trend and recent advances on promising therapeutic targets and biomarkers, new pathological mechanisms, novel therapeutic agents, and new pharmacological effects and neurotoxicity involved in the latest treatment strategy for neurological disorders. Potential topics of interest might include but are not limited to

• Discovery of new pathogenesis of aberrant neurological dysfunction with a focus on transcriptional disorder, metabolic abnormality, and immune-inflammatory response.

• Innovative drug development involving lead compounds and drug candidates.

• Exploration of the role, efficacy, and safety of the potential drug targets.

• New approaches using artificial intelligence, chemogenomics, etc., in drug design and discovery for neurological diseases.

• Discovery of neurotoxicity caused by drugs in clinical applications and trials.

Important note: i) Manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics analysis of public databases or genomic/transcriptomic sequencing without biological validation in vitro or in vivo are out of the scope of the present topic; ii) Substances without clear ingredients, such as complex prescription, crude extract, and herbal mixture, are not considered.

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Rui Liu

Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Zhuorong Li

Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

George Barreto

University of Limerick

Yong Cheng

Minzu University of China

LIU Qing-Shan

Minzu University of China

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Frontiers in Pharmacology

Neuropharmacology

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Neuropharmacology

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Neuropharmacology

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