Chapter 15: Potential Therapies

________ can be tested using high- throughput screening.

________ may be able to carry therapeutic genes into the brain to correct central nervous system diseases.

________ (Nerve Growth Factor): a trophic factor that slows the destruction of neurons that use acetylcholine.

________ can be developed to modify trophic factor- regulated functions in ways that might be useful in the treatment of neurological disorders.

________ can be engineered to modify the interactions and toxicity of misfolded proteins.

________ are used to measure whether proteins are clumped inside cells that have been distributed into containers with small molecules.

Neutralizing molecules that stop or ________ can help repair damaged nerve fiber tracts in the spinal cord.

________ flies that have been modified to carry a mutant gene for Huntingtons are generally too weak & uncoordinated to break out of their pupal case.

Glial cells that surround axons and make the myelin sheath.

________- A: a protein that inhibits nerve regeneration.

The ________ can be determined by how well it attaches to the receptor /protein target in a test tube.

Interfering RNAs.

A trophic factor that slows the destruction of neurons that use acetylcholine.

A protein that inhibits nerve regeneration.

Glial cells that protect and nourish neurons.