GLOBAL: International study breakthrough in epilepsy treatment
August 1st, 2009
By Leah Germain
An international team of scientists has made breakthrough progress in diagnosing and treating epilepsy in mice, an important discovery that promises a potential development of a major drug for this common condition. According to the research team, mice share an almost identical version of a gene with humans, which they have linked to epilepsy.
Scientists from Canada, Denmark and the UK focused their study on a strain of mouse with an inherited form of severe epilepsy. The research suggested that the mice shared a defective ATP1A3 gene, which is ...
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