Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Jack T Rogers

Neurochemistry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.

Biography

Dr. Jack T Rogers is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rogers’ laboratory studies iron metabolism and how it impacts disease processes such as anemia and Alzheimer's disease. His scientific focus has been to study the translational regulation of the mRNAs for the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) and the subunits of the iron storage protein ferritin.

Publications

Alzheimer’s Disease and Its Potential Alternative Therapeutics

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects over 5 million individuals in the United States alone. Currently, there are only two kinds of pharmacological interventions available for symptomatic relief of AD; Acetyl Cholinesterase Inhibitors (AChEI) and N-methyl-D-aspartic Acid (NMDA) receptor antagonists and t... Read More»

Brent Kisby, Juliet T Jarrell, M Enes Agar, David S Cohen, Eric R Rosin, Catherine M Cahill, Jack T Rogers and Xudong Huang

: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2019, 9: 477

10.4172/2161-0460.1000477

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