Tuesday 9 December 2014

Scientists Find New Treatment Strategy for Epilepsy

Scientists found out that the conformational defect in a specific protein causes Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (ADLTE) which is a form of familial epilepsy. They showed that treatment with chemical corrector called "chemical chaperone" ameliorates increased seizure susceptibility in a mouse model of human epilepsy by correcting the conformational defect. This was published in emNature Medicine/em (December 8, 2014 electronic edition). Mutations ...

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