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Ethosuximide ameliorates neurodegenerative disease phenotypes by modulating DAF-16/FOXO target gene expression.
Molecular neurodegeneration - 29 Sept 2015
Chen Xi, McCue Hannah V, Wong Shi Quan, Kashyap Sudhanva S, Kraemer Brian C, Barclay Jeff W, Burgoyne Robert D, Morgan Alan
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BACKGROUND: Many neurodegenerative diseases are associated with protein misfolding/aggregation. Treatments mitigating the effects of such common pathological processes, rather than disease-specific symptoms, therefore have general therapeutic potential. RESULTS: Here we report that the anti-epileptic drug ethosuximide rescues the short lifespan and chemosensory defects exhibited by C. elegans null mutants of...
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