Editorial Board
Tauheed Ishrat
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA · United States
Editorial leadership for Journal of Neurological Research and Therapy ISSN 2470-5020
Biography
- Dr. Ishrat is based in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, TN.
- His research centres on the importance of vascular protection during the acute stroke period to improve the outcome of ischemic stroke.
- He works to identify strategies for reducing vascular damage after ischemic stroke, with the aim of developing new therapies for stroke patients.
- My research interests focus on the molecular events underlying neurological diseases.
- In my studies I concentrate on three diseases: Parkinson, Alzheimer and Cerebral stroke.
- The long-term goal to identify potential new drug targets for the development of causative treatments.
- These are progressive diseases of the nervous system involving damage or loss of neurons in the brain.
- The causes of the diseases are unknown but recent evidence suggests a multifactorial origin involving genetic and environmental factors.
- Considerable efforts have been made to determine the cellular mechanisms that might underlie the cell death in these diseases.
- Over the years, several pathogenic hypotheses have been proposed, including oxidative stress, apoptosis, excitotoxicity, inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction.
- However, up to now it is not known which of these metabolic pathways participate in the process of cell death, if and how they interact and which genes are regulating this complex network.
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This journal is guided by Tauheed Ishrat (Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA) and a peer-review board of practising researchers. Open access, author-retained copyright (CC BY), and a clear editorial process.