Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive

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Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive, Science NOW
 









Excerpts: People who develop ALS lose control of their muscles and usually die
within 1 to 5 years. Previously, researchers have tried to correct two
biochemical problems that kill neurons in ALS. A third had yet to be exploited
successfully: Motor neurons die when their surfaces are overexposed to the
neurotransmitter glutamate. ALS patients suffer from this because their neurons
have trouble vacuuming glutamate back inside the cells, where it does no harm.
(...)  coax neurons to make more of this transporter protein, and whether that
would protect the nerve cells from dying.
Source: Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive[
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/106/1?etoc ], Mary
Beckman, ScienceNOW, 05/01/06

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