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Diabetes Drug for Epilepsy? | March 4, 2010
“Two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists reported they had suppressed epileptic seizures in rats by giving them a glycolytic-inhibitor, inhibiting the brain’s ability to turn sugar into excess energy and blocking the expression of seizure-related genes. The discovery was greeted with excitement and hope for a new class of drugs for epilepsy, which afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide…”
To read more, click here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080408132158.htm
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Hi Phylis,
That is really something. Maybe there will be a new med that will work for me.
The hereditary part is very interesting. I will have to read the article.
Ruth
Comment by Ruth Brown — March 4, 2010 @ 9:15 AMMar +00:00Mar
The article that Phylis found this important information is titled:
DIABETES DRUG MAY HOLD POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR EPILEPSY, USING SAME MECHANISM AS KETOGENIC DIET
Dr. Avtar Roopra in a presentation at Experimental Biology, 2008, describes a next step in the early stages of research that may mean a drug already widely used by people with Diabetes could also be an effective and safe therapy for epilepsy.
That drug is Metaforime.
Epilepsy patients had been attempting to acheive the same goal-fewer seizures. Half of all drug resistant people with epilepsy experience seizure control with the Ketogenic diet.
The next step will be to take Metformine to a mouse model of epilepsy.
Comment by Ruth Brown — March 4, 2010 @ 9:15 PMMar +00:00Mar