Carbohydrate-Based Therapeutics: A Comprehensive Resource

Carbohydrate-Based Therapeutics is a comprehensive resource that summarizes the opportunities and the latest progress in the design methodologies for carbohydrate-based therapeutics. This book adopts a disease-oriented approach, providing a detailed background of diseases and the subsequent carbohydrate-based therapies that can be applied.

Link Between Chemistry and Design of Novel Carbohydrate-Based Medicines

The book highlights the link between chemistry and the design of novel carbohydrate-based medicines. It provides a broad overview of all the potential applications of carbohydrates, emphasizing concepts used for carbohydrate drug design, structure-activity relationship, and impact on health and diseases.

Antimicrobial Carbohydrate-Based Therapies

Carbohydrate-Based Therapeutics includes information on antimicrobial carbohydrate-based therapies, covering:

• Antibacterial and antiviral vaccines
• Antifungal therapies
• Anti-influenza therapeutics
• Antiadhesive carbohydrates and glycomimetics

Anti-Cancer Carbohydrate-Based Therapies

The book also covers anti-cancer carbohydrate-based therapies, including:

• Cancer vaccines and immunotherapy
• Carbohydrate tools in cancer biology

Carbohydrate-Based Therapies in Metabolic, Neuronal, and Immune Disorders

Carbohydrate-Based Therapeutics discusses carbohydrate-based therapies in metabolic, neuronal, and immune disorders, covering:

• Carbohydrate-based therapeutics for lysosomal disorders
• Neurodegenerative diseases

New Frontiers in Carbohydrate-Based Therapies

The book explores new frontiers in carbohydrate-based therapies, including:

• Carbohydrates for tissue engineering
• Antiangiogenic and regenerative medicine

Carbohydrate-Based Therapeutics is an essential resource for medicinal, pharmaceutical, and organic chemists, chemists in industry, biochemists, and biotechnologists. It provides comprehensive coverage of foundational knowledge on the subject in a unique and highly accessible format while also exploring the state of the art in the field’s applications.