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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Neuroprotection offered by antibiotics
January 25th, 2005
Loss of nerve function can lead to debilitating, and sometimes fatal, illness. So it's crucial to find new ways to boost communication between these cells. One team of researchers has focused on the transporters that deal with glutamate, the principle excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system. Their paper, published in the January 6, 2005, issue of Nature, explains how to produce more transporters for glutamate, and gives hope for preventing nerve failure. Jeffrey Rothstein and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University showed that certain types of antibiotics can make this happen. Moreover, they revealed that the antibiotics do this...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2005-01-25)
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