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Medical News Article on Duke University Medical Center
Study may explain how a well-known epilepsy and pain drug works
2009 NOV 1 -- A Duke University Medical Center researcher who spent years looking for the signals that prompt the brain to form new connections between neurons has found one that may explain precisely how a well-known drug for epilepsy and pain actually works.
The finding may also point to new therapies for brain injury and neuropathic pain.
The role of neurons in the brain and nervous system is well known, but astrocytes, a different type of brain cell, still are largely a mystery. Duke scientist Cagla Eroglu, Ph.D. has discovered a receptor that receives messages from astrocytes so that the brain can form excitatory synapses, the cell-to-cell...
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