Ruiz, PriscilaKrol, Ed2022-11-072022-11-072022https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14288Parkinson’s Disease is characterized by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra as a result of the aggregation of alpha synuclein (AS) Nicotine from smoking and 1 aminoindan (a metabolite of Rasagiline) seem to be neuroprotective compounds and both have been associated with the reduction of the risk to develop Parkinson’s disease These compounds bind to AS at both the N and C terminus, forcing the protein to adopt a loop conformation, which appear to contribute to the neuroprotective activity of the drugs Dimer molecules linked with two neuroprotective compounds should increase the binding constants to AS and increase the efficacy to prevent AS aggregation Phase 1 metabolic studies using hepatic microsomes in vitro are needed to determine the susceptibility of the compounds to biotransformationenAttribution-NonCommercial 2.5 CanadaParkinson's diseasedrug discoveryPoster Presentation